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Riley Acton

Riley Acton is the Frank H. Jellinek Jr. Endowed Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Miami University and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). She is an applied microeconomist who specializes in the economics of education. Her research has appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and Economics of Education Review, and has been supported by organizations like the Russell Sage Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and J-PAL North America. Currently, her research agenda focuses on how students choose whether, where, and what to study in college, including how increasing political polarization influences these decisions.
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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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