زبان سیاسی در اقتصاد
🔆Political Language in Economics
#Paper

✍🏻Zubin Jelveh (Maryland), Bruce Kogut (Columbia), Suresh Naidu (Columbia)

◾️This innovative study investigates how economists' political orientations are reflected in their academic writing. Using machine learning techniques, the authors analyze the relationship between economists' political behavior and the language used in their academic publications. The research demonstrates that political partisanship can be predicted from academic text with significant accuracy, revealing systematic patterns in how political ideology manifests in economic research.
The study reveals several key findings: economists tend to sort into different research fields based on their political leanings, and partisan differences are detectable even within fields studying the same theoretical parameters. Notably, the authors find that estimated policy-relevant parameters correlate with predicted partisanship. For instance, estimates of the taxable top income elasticity vary systematically with authors' political orientation, leading to different optimal tax rate recommendations – from 77% for left-leaning economists to 60% for right-leaning ones.

◾️ این مطالعه با استفاده از تکنیک‌های یادگیری ماشین نشان می‌دهد که جهت‌گیری سیاسی اقتصاددانان در نوشته‌های علمی آنها منعکس می‌شود. یافته‌های پژوهش حاکی از آن است که اقتصاددانان تمایل دارند حوزه‌های پژوهشی خود را بر اساس گرایش‌های سیاسی‌شان انتخاب کنند. مهم‌تر آنکه، این گرایش‌های سیاسی حتی بر تخمین پارامترهای سیاست‌گذاری نیز تأثیرگذار است.

🌐 https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae026


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