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Jonathan T. Rothwell
@jtrothwell
Principal Economist at @Gallup/@GallupNews. Author of forthcoming book on why modern children need ancient parenting.
Washington DC
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Nov 25, 2024
    My latest research on the fundamental sources of wellbeing is out in Nature Communications Psychology. Research Q1: How much does parent-child relationship quality--experienced during childhood--contribute to long-term flourishing/wellbeing and mental health?
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Nov 28, 2022
    There's a terrific paper out today in AER on the effects of inter-racial contact. Students at the U of Cape Town are randomly assigned roommates, leading to multiracial room assignments. How does this exposure affect attitudes, behavior, & GPA? pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Nov 28, 2022
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    Overall, this is another boulder on top of the mountain of evidence supporting contact theory (see Allport 1954 & Pettigrew & Tropp 2006). Segregation is poisonous; social & economic integration leads to trust & cooperation, corrects & discards prejudice.
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Jun 26, 2019
    There is stunningly well-conducted empirical analysis out in AER today on the effects of vapid, low-quality entertainment & biased news on cognitive ability, civic engagement, & support for populists politicians. The conclusion is that bad media harms people & politics.
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Mar 31, 2020
    Somewhat goods news as people increase their social distancing: The growth in new U.S. COVID-19 cases has fallen from 10 new cases for every case 7-days earlier to 3.5. The slow-down in new cases has also coincided with higher testing rates.
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Feb 14, 2022
    To my shock & chagrin, my work on Black inventors has been used to discredit an economist whom I have long admired, Lisa Cook, after her nomination to serve on the Federal Reserve. My view is that nothing about my work suggests flaws in her qualifications. The opposite is true.
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Nov 28, 2022
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    White students assigned to a Black roommate significantly 1) increased friendship & social interactions with Black students 2) expressed greater comfort dating Black students 3) showed greater cooperation in prisoner's dilemma game 4) showed less implicit bias
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Nov 28, 2022
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    Rather, the authors speculate, that Black students benefitted academically by exposure to a White roommate & social network through some psychological benefit (e.g. reduced stereotype threat). There was no academic cost to White students (no sig effect on GPA or persistence)
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Nov 28, 2022
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    Black students assigned to White students generally had more social interactions & friendship with White students but the effect was insignificant. They also had significantly higher GPAs & were more likely to persist, but not b/c of roommate's academic performance.
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Nov 17, 2017
    Let’s all agree that taxing PhD students to give break to richest 1% is a terrible idea. Huge % of tech founders have a PhD; 46% of US inventors have a PhD rieti.go.jp/jp/publication…
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Dec 6, 2023
    I keep seeing analysis claiming to show that the U.S. economy is actually great, but Americans refuse to see it--or are too uninformed or unintelligent. Let's consider the claims here from @jburnmurdoch
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    Steven Rattner
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    Dec 6, 2023
    "Americans are adamant that US economic circumstances are getting worse. They're wrong." CC: @FT
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Jan 3, 2017
    "The Middle Class Can't Afford to Live in Cities Anymore" anti-density zoning = bad idea wired.com/2016/12/year-h…
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    May 11, 2023
    While the COVID emergency officially ends today, one fact, in particular, gnaws away at me: More young people died from excess deaths of despair-likely due to the policy & media response to COVID--than from the disease itself.
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    Jonathan T. Rothwell
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    Jun 13, 2018
    Still wrapping my head around the implications of @m_clem's brilliant new paper, which shows massive policy-induced reduction in immigrant labor in ag sector had zero effect on wages of US workers but huge effect on mechanization. Substitutability with technology seems to be key.
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