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Matthew Gentzkow

Professor of Economics and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow

Matthew Gentzkow is Professor of Economics and Neubauer Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He studies empirical industrial organization and political economy, with a specific focus on media industries.

Gentzkow's work has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, and Econometrica, and has been covered in major national media. Gentzkow received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2009. He has also been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for research on media bias, and a Faculty Excellence Award for teaching. He hopes his students learn to "ask more questions, think critically, and to realize that many arguments that sound good aren't."

He was educated at Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1997, a master's degree in 2002, and a PhD in 2004 in economics.

Selected Publications

With Jesse M. Shapiro, "What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers," Econometrica(forthcoming).

With Jesse M. Shapiro, "Competition and Truth in the Market for News," Journal of Economic Perspectives (2008).

With Jesse M. Shapiro, "Preschool Television Viewing and Adolescent Test Scores Historical Evidence from the Coleman Study," Quarterly Journal of Economics (2008).

"Valuing New Goods in a Model with Complementarities: Online Newspapers," American Economic Review (2007).

"Television and voter turnout," Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006).

 
   

Courses
33610 Applied Economics Workshop 2009(Fall)
42001 Competitive Strategy 2010(Spring)

Other Interests
Mountains, Go, bikes, food.