Matthew Gentzkow

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Matthew Aaron Gentzkow (* 1975 ) is an American economist . He is a professor at Stanford University and deals primarily with industrial and political economy , in particular with the influence of mass media . In 2014 he received the John Bates Clark Medal .

Career

Gentzkow completed his academic training at Harvard University , where he received his Bachelor's (1997) and Master of Arts (2002) and then a Ph.D. under Ariel Pakes. PhD (2004). He then moved to the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago , where he worked as an assistant professor from 2004 to 2009 before being appointed to a full professorship in 2009. Most recently, he was Richard O. Ryan Professor of Economics in Chicago from 2013 to 2015 , before accepting a professorship at Stanford University in 2015 . At the same time, he has been working for the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2006 .

Scientific work

Gentzkow mainly deals with industrial economics and political economy , with the influence of mass media being a special focus. For example, he examined the consumption behavior of Internet users along the political spectrum of news websites as well as the influence of television on political elections or on the test results of schoolchildren. For his work to date, he was honored with the John Bates Clark Medal in 2014, which is awarded to economists under 40 years of age. He has also been a member (fellow) of the Econometric Society since 2014 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.

Gentzkow was or is involved in the publication of several specialist journals as co-editor, including the Journal of Economic Literature (2011-2013), the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2010-2016) and the Quarterly Journal of Economics (since 2017).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nelson D. Schwartz: University of Chicago Economist Who Studies Media Receives Clark Medal. nytimes.com, April 18, 2014, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Patrick Bernau: Why the Internet does not divide society. faz.net, April 18, 2014, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter G. (PDF; 931 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed December 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gentzkow, Matthew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975