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Paola Ugalde

Paola Ugalde is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University. She received her PhD in Economics from Arizona State University. Her applied research spans education and labor economics, focusing on access to and inequality in education and how structural and institutional factors shape educational opportunity and outcomes. Her current work investigates how political polarization affects students’ college decisions and their perceptions of universities’ political orientations.
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Higher Education Is Becoming More Politically Polarized

Riley Acton
In new research, Riley Acton, Emily Cook, and Paola Ugalde find that college campuses in the United States have become increasingly polarized over the last few decades, and both liberals and conservatives are willing to pay much more to attend colleges with likeminded peers.

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