Brian Flaxman, Ph.D

University of Colorado Boulder

Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Research Expertise

Political Economy
Public Economics
Policy Economics
Natural Language Processing
Political Economics

About

My name is Brian Flaxman, recent Economics PhD graduate from The University of Colorado-Boulder. My specialties are political and policy economics, with natural language processing applications. My job market paper "Legislation For Sale? The Influence of PhRMA Campaign Donations on US House Health Legislation'' finds that House members who receive more in PhRMA Political Action Committee (PACs) donations sponsor legislation more favorable to PhRMA than legislators who receive less and vice versa. I pride myself in thinking outside of the box when it comes to research, oftentimes taking the form of using relatively basic tools from certain fields and apply them to find easy solutions to problems in other fields (In my job market paper's case, using NLP to solve a problem in political economy).

Publications

The Economic and Demographic Determinants of Donald Trump's 2016 Election Victory

SSRN Electronic Journal / Jan 01, 2018

Flaxman, B. (2018). The Economic and Demographic Determinants of Donald Trump’s 2016 Election Victory. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3264520

Legislation For Sale? The Influence of PhRMA Campaign Donations on US House Health Legislation

Jan 01, 2024

Flaxman, B. (2024). Legislation For Sale? The Influence of PhRMA Campaign Donations on US House Health Legislation. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5018393

Political Action Committee (PAC) Fundraising for United States Senators; An Influence Motive

Jan 01, 2024

Flaxman, B. (2024). Political Action Committee (PAC) Fundraising for United States Senators; An Influence Motive. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5018399

Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Ph.D, Economics / August, 2024

Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

University of Colorado Boulder

MA, Economics / May, 2018

Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

University of Florida

BA, Economics / May, 2014

Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Experience

University of Colorado Boulder

TA/Instructor / August, 2016December, 2023

Was TA or instrcutor of record for a variety of economics courses.

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