Prior to his work at the University of Maryland, he was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, a visiting assistant professor of economics at the
University of California, Berkeley, and an assistant professor of
economics at the
Institute for International Economic Studies at
Stockholm University in
Sweden.
Papers A working paper authored by Kaplan and
Stefano DellaVigna (also of the University of California at Berkeley) examining the impact of
Fox News Channel on electoral outcomes received significant attention after being cited by
Alan Krueger in a
New York Times op-ed. In 2007, Kaplan and
Stefano DellaVigna published their findings in the
Quarterly Journal of Economics, finding that Fox News had a mild but statistically significant effect in boosting Republican vote share. == Education ==