Jeffrey Milyo
Biographic Data
| ID | 2126586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Milyo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Milyo |
| SIGNATURE | MILYO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1460-6452 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 373 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Do Campaign Finance Reforms Insulate Incumbents from Competition? New Evidence from State Legislative Elections
Variations in state campaign finance regulations across states and over time provide an opportunity to test the effects of reforms on the electoral success of incumbent state legislators. We use the most recent state legislative election returns dataset to test whether state campaign finance reforms help or hinder incumbents. Our analysis of nearly 66,000 contests in 33 years reveals that campaign contribution limits and partial public financing …
Measuring Public Corruption in the United States
A growing empirical literature examines public corruption in the United States, but most of these studies use survey data on federal corruption convictions that is aggregated, sparse, and of dubious quality and provenance. This article describes an alternative data source from administrative records that provides more detailed and reliable information on corruption prosecutions and convictions by type of state official and by lead charge. Contrar…
Money in Politics
There is a disconnect between the popular understanding of the role of money in American politics and the lessons from social science research. The foundational research in this field finds that campaign spending has at best negligible impacts on election outcomes. Similarly, decades of research reveal very little evidence that campaign contributions or even lobbying has significant effects on the content of public policy. These findings are corr…
Public Approval ofU.S. State Legislatures
The determinants of public approval for state legislatures have not received much attention, but one important finding is that more professionalized legislatures experience lower levels of public support. We argue that this result is an artifact of limited data and problematic model specifications. Analyzing a large national survey sample, we demonstrate that the negative relationship holds primarily for conservatives and to a lesser extent for m…
Sincere Versus Sophisticated Voting in Congress
An asymmetry exists in the empirical literature on sophisticated voting in Congress. All studies that find supporting evidence of sophisticated voting have been only piecemeal—that is, they examine only one or a few roll calls. In contrast, the studies that systematically study many roll calls conclude that sophisticated voting is, at best, very rare. We are aware of three such systematic studies—those by Poole and Rosenthal (1997), Wilkerson (19…
Environmental Policy Attitudes
Objectives. This article examines environmental policy attitudes, focusing on the differences in preferences across issue type (i.e., pollution, resource preservation) and geographical scale (i.e., local, national, global). In addition, we study whether an individual's trust in government influences environmental policy attitudes. Methods. Analyzing data from the 2007 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we estimate a series of OLS regressio…
Estimating the Impact of State Policies and Institutions with Mixed-Level Data
Researchers are often interested in the effects of state policies and institutions on individual behavior or other outcomes in sub-state-level observational units, such as election results in state legislative districts. In this article, we examine the issue of clustered data in state and local politics research and the analytical problems it can cause. Standard estimation methods applied in most regression models do not properly account for the …
A Measure of Media Bias
We measure media bias by estimating ideological scores for several major media outlets. To compute this, we count the times that a particular media outlet cites various think tanks and policy groups, then compare this with the times that members of Congress cite the same groups. Our results show a strong liberal bias: all of the news outlets we examine, except Fox News ’ Special Report and the Washington Times, received scores to the left of the …
A social‐science perspective on media bias
The questions of whether the news media are biased, and if so, in what direction, typically generate more heat than light. Here, we review some of the most recent and meritorious empirical studies on media bias. This evidence suggests that several prominent national news outlets have a distinct slant to the left or right, and that exposure to these sources influences both public opinion and voting behavior
Individual Health Status and Racial Minority Concentration in US States and Counties
Objectives. We examined whether the positive association between mortality rates and racial minority concentration documented in ecological studies would be found for health status after control for race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and region of residence. Methods. We estimated least squares and probit models using aggregate and individual health status data from the 1995, 1997, and 1999 versions of the Current Population Survey merged with …
The States of Campaign Finance Reform
Reexamining the Evidence of an Ecological Association between Income Inequality and Health
Several recent studies have made the provocative claim that income inequality is an important determinant of population health. The primary evidence for this hypothesis is the repeated finding—across countries and across U.S. states— that there is an association between income inequality and aggregate health outcomes. However, most of these studies examine only a single cross section of data and employ few (or even no)control variables. We examin…
Income inequality and health
TYPE="ORG" OID="af2" CNY="US">Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
What do Candidates Maximize (and Why Should Anyone Care)
Corporate PAC Campaign Contributions in Perspective
There is a vast empirical literature on the allocation of corporate PAC contributions in Congressional elections and the influence that these contributions have on the policy-making process. The attention given to PAC contributions is far in excess of their actual importance. Corporate PAC contributions account for about 10% of Congressional campaign spending and major corporations allocate far more money to lobbying or philanthropy than their af…
Logical Deficiencies in Spatial Models
Gender Bias and Selection Bias in House Elections
Is inequality bad for our health
A number of recent studies suggest that income and social inequality (as opposed to poverty itself) have detrimental consequences on people's health. These studies argue that while the poor may suffer the most from inequality, the rich also suffer. On closer inspection, however, it emerges that the basic arguments and evidence that inequality has a causal effect on health are wanting in many respects
The economics of political campaign finance
Serious Money
Journal Article Serious Money: Fundraising and Contributing in Presidential Nomination Campaigns, by Clifford W. Brown ,Jr. and Clyde Wilcox and Lynda Powell Get access Serious Money: Fundraising and Contributing in Presidential Nomination Campaigns by Clifford W. Brown, Lynda Powell, and Clyde Wilcox. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1995. 184 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $19.95. Jeffrey Milyo Jeffrey Milyo Tufts University and M.I.T. Search f…
Partisan Politics, Divided Government, and the Economy. Alberto Alesina , Howard Rosenthal
Estimating the Impact of State Policies and Institutions with Mixed-Level Data
Researchers are often interested in the effects of state policies and institutions on individual behavior or other outcomes in sub-state-level observational units, such as election results in state legislative districts. In this article, we examine the issue of clustered data in state and local politics research and the analytical problems it can cause. Standard estimation methods applied in most regression models do not properly account for the …
Environmental Policy Attitudes
Objectives. This article examines environmental policy attitudes, focusing on the differences in preferences across issue type (i.e., pollution, resource preservation) and geographical scale (i.e., local, national, global). In addition, we study whether an individual's trust in government influences environmental policy attitudes. Methods. Analyzing data from the 2007 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we estimate a series of OLS regressio…
Gender Bias and Selection Bias in House Elections
Sincere Versus Sophisticated Voting in Congress
An asymmetry exists in the empirical literature on sophisticated voting in Congress. All studies that find supporting evidence of sophisticated voting have been only piecemeal—that is, they examine only one or a few roll calls. In contrast, the studies that systematically study many roll calls conclude that sophisticated voting is, at best, very rare. We are aware of three such systematic studies—those by Poole and Rosenthal (1997), Wilkerson (19…
Public Approval ofU.S. State Legislatures
The determinants of public approval for state legislatures have not received much attention, but one important finding is that more professionalized legislatures experience lower levels of public support. We argue that this result is an artifact of limited data and problematic model specifications. Analyzing a large national survey sample, we demonstrate that the negative relationship holds primarily for conservatives and to a lesser extent for m…
Measuring Public Corruption in the United States
A growing empirical literature examines public corruption in the United States, but most of these studies use survey data on federal corruption convictions that is aggregated, sparse, and of dubious quality and provenance. This article describes an alternative data source from administrative records that provides more detailed and reliable information on corruption prosecutions and convictions by type of state official and by lead charge. Contrar…
Is inequality bad for our health
A number of recent studies suggest that income and social inequality (as opposed to poverty itself) have detrimental consequences on people's health. These studies argue that while the poor may suffer the most from inequality, the rich also suffer. On closer inspection, however, it emerges that the basic arguments and evidence that inequality has a causal effect on health are wanting in many respects
The economics of political campaign finance
Logical Deficiencies in Spatial Models
What do Candidates Maximize (and Why Should Anyone Care)
Individual Health Status and Racial Minority Concentration in US States and Counties
Objectives. We examined whether the positive association between mortality rates and racial minority concentration documented in ecological studies would be found for health status after control for race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and region of residence. Methods. We estimated least squares and probit models using aggregate and individual health status data from the 1995, 1997, and 1999 versions of the Current Population Survey merged with …
A social‐science perspective on media bias
The questions of whether the news media are biased, and if so, in what direction, typically generate more heat than light. Here, we review some of the most recent and meritorious empirical studies on media bias. This evidence suggests that several prominent national news outlets have a distinct slant to the left or right, and that exposure to these sources influences both public opinion and voting behavior
Do Campaign Finance Reforms Insulate Incumbents from Competition? New Evidence from State Legislative Elections
Variations in state campaign finance regulations across states and over time provide an opportunity to test the effects of reforms on the electoral success of incumbent state legislators. We use the most recent state legislative election returns dataset to test whether state campaign finance reforms help or hinder incumbents. Our analysis of nearly 66,000 contests in 33 years reveals that campaign contribution limits and partial public financing …
The States of Campaign Finance Reform
Partisan Politics, Divided Government, and the Economy. Alberto Alesina , Howard Rosenthal
The economics of political campaign finance
Serious Money
Journal Article Serious Money: Fundraising and Contributing in Presidential Nomination Campaigns, by Clifford W. Brown ,Jr. and Clyde Wilcox and Lynda Powell Get access Serious Money: Fundraising and Contributing in Presidential Nomination Campaigns by Clifford W. Brown, Lynda Powell, and Clyde Wilcox. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1995. 184 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $19.95. Jeffrey Milyo Jeffrey Milyo Tufts University and M.I.T. Search f…
Is inequality bad for our health
A number of recent studies suggest that income and social inequality (as opposed to poverty itself) have detrimental consequences on people's health. These studies argue that while the poor may suffer the most from inequality, the rich also suffer. On closer inspection, however, it emerges that the basic arguments and evidence that inequality has a causal effect on health are wanting in many respects
Corporate PAC Campaign Contributions in Perspective
There is a vast empirical literature on the allocation of corporate PAC contributions in Congressional elections and the influence that these contributions have on the policy-making process. The attention given to PAC contributions is far in excess of their actual importance. Corporate PAC contributions account for about 10% of Congressional campaign spending and major corporations allocate far more money to lobbying or philanthropy than their af…
Logical Deficiencies in Spatial Models
Gender Bias and Selection Bias in House Elections
Reexamining the Evidence of an Ecological Association between Income Inequality and Health
Several recent studies have made the provocative claim that income inequality is an important determinant of population health. The primary evidence for this hypothesis is the repeated finding—across countries and across U.S. states— that there is an association between income inequality and aggregate health outcomes. However, most of these studies examine only a single cross section of data and employ few (or even no)control variables. We examin…
Income inequality and health
TYPE="ORG" OID="af2" CNY="US">Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
What do Candidates Maximize (and Why Should Anyone Care)
The States of Campaign Finance Reform
Individual Health Status and Racial Minority Concentration in US States and Counties
Objectives. We examined whether the positive association between mortality rates and racial minority concentration documented in ecological studies would be found for health status after control for race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and region of residence. Methods. We estimated least squares and probit models using aggregate and individual health status data from the 1995, 1997, and 1999 versions of the Current Population Survey merged with …
A Measure of Media Bias
We measure media bias by estimating ideological scores for several major media outlets. To compute this, we count the times that a particular media outlet cites various think tanks and policy groups, then compare this with the times that members of Congress cite the same groups. Our results show a strong liberal bias: all of the news outlets we examine, except Fox News ’ Special Report and the Washington Times, received scores to the left of the …
A social‐science perspective on media bias
The questions of whether the news media are biased, and if so, in what direction, typically generate more heat than light. Here, we review some of the most recent and meritorious empirical studies on media bias. This evidence suggests that several prominent national news outlets have a distinct slant to the left or right, and that exposure to these sources influences both public opinion and voting behavior
Estimating the Impact of State Policies and Institutions with Mixed-Level Data
Researchers are often interested in the effects of state policies and institutions on individual behavior or other outcomes in sub-state-level observational units, such as election results in state legislative districts. In this article, we examine the issue of clustered data in state and local politics research and the analytical problems it can cause. Standard estimation methods applied in most regression models do not properly account for the …
Environmental Policy Attitudes
Objectives. This article examines environmental policy attitudes, focusing on the differences in preferences across issue type (i.e., pollution, resource preservation) and geographical scale (i.e., local, national, global). In addition, we study whether an individual's trust in government influences environmental policy attitudes. Methods. Analyzing data from the 2007 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we estimate a series of OLS regressio…
Sincere Versus Sophisticated Voting in Congress
An asymmetry exists in the empirical literature on sophisticated voting in Congress. All studies that find supporting evidence of sophisticated voting have been only piecemeal—that is, they examine only one or a few roll calls. In contrast, the studies that systematically study many roll calls conclude that sophisticated voting is, at best, very rare. We are aware of three such systematic studies—those by Poole and Rosenthal (1997), Wilkerson (19…
Public Approval ofU.S. State Legislatures
The determinants of public approval for state legislatures have not received much attention, but one important finding is that more professionalized legislatures experience lower levels of public support. We argue that this result is an artifact of limited data and problematic model specifications. Analyzing a large national survey sample, we demonstrate that the negative relationship holds primarily for conservatives and to a lesser extent for m…
Money in Politics
There is a disconnect between the popular understanding of the role of money in American politics and the lessons from social science research. The foundational research in this field finds that campaign spending has at best negligible impacts on election outcomes. Similarly, decades of research reveal very little evidence that campaign contributions or even lobbying has significant effects on the content of public policy. These findings are corr…
Measuring Public Corruption in the United States
A growing empirical literature examines public corruption in the United States, but most of these studies use survey data on federal corruption convictions that is aggregated, sparse, and of dubious quality and provenance. This article describes an alternative data source from administrative records that provides more detailed and reliable information on corruption prosecutions and convictions by type of state official and by lead charge. Contrar…
Do Campaign Finance Reforms Insulate Incumbents from Competition? New Evidence from State Legislative Elections
Variations in state campaign finance regulations across states and over time provide an opportunity to test the effects of reforms on the electoral success of incumbent state legislators. We use the most recent state legislative election returns dataset to test whether state campaign finance reforms help or hinder incumbents. Our analysis of nearly 66,000 contests in 33 years reveals that campaign contribution limits and partial public financing …
Political science (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)