Timothy J. Groseclose
Department of Economics
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
email: timgroseclose@gmail.com
PERSONAL
Born September 22, 1964. Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Married to Victoria DeGuzman Groseclose.
Two children, born in 2001 and 2007.
EDUCATION
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Ph.D. in Political Economics (1992)
Stanford University, B.S. with Distinction in Mathematical and Computational Sciences (1987)
Lakeside High School, Hot Springs, Arkansas (1983)
FACULTY POSITIONS
Professor of Economics & holder of the Adam Smith Chair at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2014-present
Marvin Hoffenberg Chair of American Politics, UCLA, 2008-2014
Professor of Political Science, UCLA, 2005-2014 (and Professor of Economics, UCLA, 2006-2014)
Visiting Professor of Political Science, Caltech, Autumn 2006
Faculty member of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics, 2006-present
Associate Professor of Political Science, UCLA, 2003-2005
Associate Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 1998-2003
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University, 1996-1998
Harvard/MIT Political Economy Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1995-1996
Visiting Scholar, MIT Political Science Department, 1994-1996
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences and (by courtesy) Graduate School of Industrial Administration, 1992-1995
HONORS & FELLOWSHIPS
Hoover National Fellow (2000-01)
Olin Faculty Fellow (1994-5)
Lambe Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies (1990-91, 1991-92)
Dissertation Fellow, Center for the Study of Public Choice, George Mason University (Spring 1991)
Merit Fellow, Graduate School of Business (1989-90)
CLASSES TAUGHT
Economics for the Citizen (undergrad)
Introduction to Microeconomics (undergrad)
Structural Models of Econometrics (PhD)
Game Theory for Politicians (undergrad)
Mass Media and Elections (undergrad);
Legislative Strategy (undergrad);
Media Bias (undergrad);
Applications and Tests of Formal Models of Politics (PhD);
Management in the Nonmarket Environment (MBA);
Theories of Democracy (undergrad);
Introduction to Models of Political Science (PhD);
Introduction to Models of Political Science (undergrad);
Policy Analysis II (undergrad);
Political Economy (PhD);
Models of Congress (PhD);
Theory of Social Choice (PhD);
Introduction to Statistics for Political Scientists (PhD);
Legislative Politics (undergrad)
OCCASIONAL REVIEWER
American Economic Review
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
American Journal of Political Science
American Political Science Review
American Politics Quarterly
British Journal of Political Science
Cambridge University Press
Econometrica
Economic Inquiry
Economic Journal
Economics and Politics
Economics Letters
Games and Economic Behavior
Independent Review
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Journal of Economic Theory
Journal of Law and Economics
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Journal of Politics
Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Public Economics
Legislative Studies Quarterly
National Science Foundation
Political Analysis
Political Research Quarterly
Political Psychology
Presidential Studies Quarterly
Public Choice
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Quarterly Journal of Political Science
Review of Economics and Statistics
Social Choice and Welfare
UNESCO’s Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Mathematical Models in Economics)
EDITORIAL BOARDS
American Journal of Political Science, 1998-2002
Journal of Politics, 2001-2004
BOOKS
Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 2011.
Cheating: An Insider’s Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA. Dog Ear Publishing. 2014.
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
“One-Sided Bargaining over a Finite Set of Alternatives,” Journal of Public Economic Theory. Forthcoming. 2021.
“Do Humans Rationally Discount Biased Signals? Evidence from the Crawford-Sobel Game,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 186 (June): 306-17. 2021.
“Sincere Versus Sophisticated Voting When Legislators Vote Sequentially” (with Jeff Milyo) Social Choice and Welfare. 40 (March, No. 3): 745-51 2013.
“Sincere Versus Sophisticated Voting in Congress: Theory and Evidence,” (with Jeff Milyo) Journal of Politics. 72 (January, No. 1): 60-73. 2010.
“Black’s Median Voter Theorem In ‘One And A Half’ Dimensions” Social Choice and Welfare. 28: 321-35. 2007.
“State Campaign Finance Reforms, Competitiveness and Party Advantage in Gubernatorial Elections,” (with Jeff Milyo and David Primo) in The Marketplace of Democracy. Michael McDonald and John Samples, Editors. (Brookings Institution and Cato Institute: Washington, DC). 2006.
“Gatekeeping” (with Christophe Crombez and Keith Krehbiel) Journal of Politics. 68 (May, No. 2): 322-34. 2006.
“A Social Science Perspective on Media Bias” (with Jeff Milyo) Critical Review. 17, Nos. 3-4. 2005.
“A Measure of Media Bias” (with Jeff Milyo) Quarterly Journal of Economics, November. 2005.
“Interpreting the Coefficient of Party Influence: Comment on Krehbiel” (with James Snyder) Political Analysis, 11 (Winter): 104-107. 2003.
“Testing Mixed Strategy Equilibria When Players are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer” (with Piere-Andre Chiappori and Steve Levitt) American Economic Review, 92 (September) 1138-51. 2002.
“Estimating Party Influence on Roll Call Voting: Regression Coefficients vs. Classification Success” (with Jim Snyder) American Political Science Review, 95 (September): 689-98. 2001.
“A Model of Candidate Location When One Candidate Has a Valence Advantage” American Journal of Political Science. 45 (October): 862-86. 2001.
“The Politics of Blame: Bargaining Before an Audience” (with Nolan McCarty) American Journal of Political Science. 45 (January): 100-119. 2001.
“Rethinking Justices’ and Committees’ Strategies In Segal’s Separation of Powers Game” (with Sara Schiavoni). Public Choice. 106 (January): 131-35. 2001.
“Vote Buying, Supermajorities, and Flooded Coalitions” (with Jim Snyder) American Political Science Review. 94 (September): 683-4. 2000.
“Committee Theories Reconsidered” (with David King) in Congress Reconsidered, 7th Edition. Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, editors. Pp. 191-216. 2000.
“Corporate PAC Contributions In Perspective” (with Jeff Milyo and David Primo). Business and Politics. 2 (No. 1): 75-88. 2000.
“Estimating Party Influence on Congressional Roll-Call Voting” (with Jim Snyder) American Journal of Political Science. 44 (April): 187-205. 2000.
“Measuring The Ideologies of Legislators Accurately” (with Barry Burden and Gregory Caldeira). 25 (May): 237-258. Legislative Studies Quarterly. May 2000.
“The Electoral Effects of Incumbent Wealth” (with Jeff Milyo) Journal of Law and Economics.) 42 (October): 699-722. 1999.
“The Value Of Committee Seats In The United States Senate, 1947-91” (with Charles Stewart) American Journal Of Political Science. 43 (July): 963-73. 1999.
“Comparing Interest Group Scores Across Time And Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores For The U.S. Congress.” (with Steve Levitt and Jim Snyder) American Political Science Review. 93 (March): 33-50. 1999.
“The Value of Committee Seats in the House, 1947-91.” (with Charles Stewart.) American Journal of Political Science 42 (April): 453-74. 1998.
“Little Theater: Committee of Congress” (with David King) chapter for Great Theater: The American Congress in Action, Herbert F. Weisberg and Samuel C. Patterson, editors. Pp. 135-51. 1998.
“Buying Supermajorities” (with Jim Snyder) American Political Science Review. 90 (June): 303-15. 1996.
“An Examination of the Market Favors and Votes in Congress” Economic Inquiry 34 (April): 320-40. 1996.
“The Committee Outlier Debate: A Review and Reexamination of Some of the Evidence.” Public Choice. 80(September): 265-73. 1994.
“Testing Hypothesis of Committee Composition.” Journal of Politics. 56 (May): 440-58. 1994.
“Golden Parachutes, Rubber Checks, and Strategic Retirements from the 102nd House” (with Keith Krehbiel) American Journal of Political Science. 38 (Febraury): 75-99. 1994.
“On the Pervasiveness of Sophisticated Sincerity” (with Keith Krehbiel) Political Economy: Institutions, Information, Competition, and Representation. William Barnett, Melvin Hinich, Howard Rosenthal, and Norm Schofield, editors. Cambridge University Press. 1993.
POPULAR ARTICLES AND OTHER ESSAYS
“What Will Happen If the Democrats Pack the Supreme Court,” (with Dennis Prager), RealClearPolitics.com and several other outlets that distribute Prager’s column.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/10/13/what_will_happen
_if_the_democrats_pack_the_supreme_court_144429.html
“Impilcations of Ideological Imbalance in Academia: The Case of Richard Sander,” paper presented at the conference, “The University, Left to Right,” at Princeton University, Feb. 9, 2018.
Foreword to Leaving Cuba: One Family’s Journey to Freedom by Lala Suarez Mooney. 2019. North Liberty Iowa: Big Fox Publishing. (Mooney, who is the mother of Alex Mooney a West Virginian congressman, fled Castro’s Cuba for the United States in 1961.)
“Gun-Free Zones, like at UCLA, are Magnets for Murderers,” Orange County Register, June 9, 2016. (with John Lott) http://www.ocregister.com/articles/gun-718667-guns-permit.html
“Media Manipulation: How UCLA Cleared Itself of Using Race in Admissions,” Breitbart.com, June 30, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/30/How-UCLA-Cleared-Itself-of-Using-Race-in-Admissions
“How Mare’s Study Suggested Race Played a Role in UCLA Admissions,” Breitbart.com, June 30, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/30/How-Mare-s-Study-Suggested-Race-Played-Role-in-UCLA-Admissions
“How to Admit 354 Black Students Using Class-Based Preferences Alone,” Breitbart.com, June 27, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/27/How-to-Admit-354-Black-Students-Using-Class-Based-Preferences-Alone
“Second-Chance Reviews, not ‘Holistic’ System, Lifted UCLA’s Black Admissions,” Breitbart.com, June 24, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/24/Second-Chance-Reviews-Not-Holistic-System-Lifted-UCLA-s-Black-Admissions
“Why There are too few ‘Black Bruins’,” Breitbart.com, June 22, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/22/Why-There-are-Too-Few-Black-Bruins
“Winning the Battle for Data on UCLA Admissions,” Breitbart.com, June 20, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/21/Winning-the-Battle-for-Data-on-UCLA-Admissions
“Resigning from UCLA Admissions—And UCLA’s Response,” Breitbart.com, June 17, 2004. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/18/Resigning-from-UCLA-Admissions-and-UCLA-s-Response
“Why Sander is Fighting a Deceitful Admissions System,” Breitbart.com, June 16, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/16/Why-Sander-is-Fighting-a-Deceitful-Admissions-System
“Richard Sander: Standing up to Deceit in University Admissions,” Breitbart.com, June 13, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/13/Richard-Sander-Standing-up-to-Deceit-in-University-Admissions
“UCLA and Race in Admissions: Avoiding the Evidence,” Breitbart.com, June 10, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/10/UCLA-and-Race-in-Admissions-Avoiding-the-Evidence
“Race- Versus Class-Based Preferences in UCLA Admissions,” Breitbart.com, June 10, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/06/10/Race-Versus-Class-based-Preferences-in-UCLA-Admissions
“Did UCLA Change Admission Process to Aid Minorities?” Breitbart.com, May 22, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/05/22/UCLA-Changed-Admission-Process-to-Aid-Minorities
“Has UCLA Found a Way to Use Race in Admissions?” Breitbart.com, May 11, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/05/11/Has-UCLA-Found-A-Way-to-Use-Race-in-Admissions
Faculty letter misrepresents Mare report’s findings,” Daily Bruin, November 9, 2012.
“As Arthur Laffer disrupted conventional economic thinking, Prager University disrupts higher education” The Daily Caller, September 10, 2012
“Asking Tim Groseclose: Is the media really that biased?” (Interview in which Joseph Cotto asked me a series of questions, to which I wrote printed answers) Washington Times, August 11, 2012
“Lo Blow: The New York Times’ transparent hit job on Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones,” City Journal, August 13, 2012
“Mitt Romney’s Electoral College Advantage: Why the GOP nominee has a slight edge in the one poll that counts,” City Journal, July 5, 2012.
“Media Bias and Abortion Language,” Foxnews.com, Septempber 10, 2011.
“The Pernicious Effects of Media Bias.” Washington Times. July 26, 2011.
“Why Chris Wallace was Right and Jon Stewart was Wrong.” The Hill (Congress Blog), June 28, 2011.
“Who’s Afraid of Political Speech?” (with Jeff Milyo) St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 29, 2009
“Biases Revealed in News Media.” UCLA Today, November 8, 2005, p. 7.
“Lost Shepherd,” (with Jeff Milyo) The American Spectator, April, 1996.
BOOK REVIEWS
“The War on Guns, John Lott’s Important New Book.” August 12, 2016. Ricochet.com,https://ricochet.com/the-war-on-guns-john-lotts-important-new-book/
“A Review of Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own” (by Garett Jones), November 15, 2015. https://ricochet.com/archives/review-hive-mind-nations-iq-matters-much/)
“Preserving for Posterity the Truth About the Tea Party: A Review of Joel Pollak’s Wacko Birds.” September 27, 2014. Ricochet.com, https://ricochet.com/archives/preserving-posterity-truth-tea-party-review-joel-pollaks-wacko-birds/
PAPERS IN CIRCULATION
“One-Sided Bargaining Over a Finite Set of Set of Alternatives”
“The Coase Conjecture When the Monopolist and Customers Have Different Discount Rates”
“Bias in a Laboratory Simulation of a Signaling Game with Implications for the Effects of the News Media.”
“Extreme Sample Selection Bias: Conditions That Cause The Correlation Between Two Variables To Switch Signs”
“A Simple Solution for a Group Choosing a Restaurant” (with Jeff Milyo)
“Buying The Bums Out: What’s The Dollar Value Of A Seat In Congress?” (with Jeff Milyo)
VIDEOS
“Prager University: Do High Taxes Raise More Money?” (2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayad5mbSSrU
“Prager University: Proving Media Bias” (2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpBW6Tx2bGs
BLOG POSTS
Since August, 2011, I have been a regular blogger at Ricochet.com, where I have published a few hundred blog posts.
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
On September 27, 2018 I testified as an expert witness for a congressional hearing on “Intellectual Freedom in the U.S.” The hearing was run by the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice (which is part of the House Judiciary Committee).
INVITED PRESENTATIONS (SINCE JAN., 2011)
Economics Dept., Wake Forest University, Sept. 5, 2018
Economics Dept., Clemson University, Aug. 22, 2018
Princeton University, “The University, Left to Right,” Feb. 9,2018
University of Utah Business School, Brown Bag series, Dec.15,2017.
Mercatus Center, Dec. 7, 2017 (“Structural Models”)
Southern Economics Association meetings, Wash., D.C., Nov. 19-21, 2016
Virginia Political Economy Conference, Arlington, Va., July 15 & 16, 2016
Free Enterprise and University Life, Boston Univ., July 31, 2015
National Journalism Center, Reston, Va., Feb. 6, 2015
Center for Constructive Alternatives, Hillsdale College, Jan. 26, 2015
Public Choice Center, George Mason U., Dec. 3, 2014
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program, George Mason U., Nov. 13, 2014
National Journalism Center, Reston, Va., Oct. 24, 2014
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, George Mason U., Oct. 23, 2014
National Journalism Center, Washington, D.C., July 25, 2014
Backbone Foundation, Diamond Bar, Ca., June 15, 2014
Thousand Oaks Chinese School, Thousand Oaks, Ca., May 31, 2014
James Madison Program, Princeton University, May 1, 2013
Economics Department, George Mason University, March 19, 2013
Ernest Lefever Lecture, Elizabethtown College, February 7, 2013
Bruin Republicans, UCLA, November 27, 2012
Young America’s Foundation, Santa Barbara, Ca., October 19, 2012
Lincoln Club, Los Angeles, Ca., October 5, 2012
National Journalism Center, Washington, D.C., June 28, 2012
Media Fairness Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives, June 28, 2012
Maine Heritage Policy Center, June 27, 2012
Institute for Humane Studies Book Event, Costa Mesa, Ca. May 10, 2012
Institute for Humane Studies Book Event, Los Angeles, Ca., May 10, 2012
Economic Sciences Institute, Chapman University, May 4, 2012
Sutherland Family Lecture, Hofstra University, March 15, 2012
L.A. County Federated Republican Women, Montebello, Ca., February 22, 2012
Legatus Society, Santa Monica, Ca., February 21, 2012
Haas Business School, UC Berkeley, February 2, 2012
Political Science Dept., Texas A&M, January 27, 2012
Media Fairness Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives, November 30, 2011
Cato Institute, November 30, 2011
Tullock Lecture, George Mason School of Law, November 29, 2011
Miller Center, Univ. of Virginia, November 28, 2011
Anderson School of Business, UCLA, November 18, 2011
Arsalyn Youth Forums Town Hall Panel Discussion, Alhambra, Ca., Nov. 12, 2011
Azusa Pacific University, November 1, 2011
Center of the American Experiment, Minneapolis, Minn., October 19, 2011
Malibu/Bel-Air Republican Women Federated, October 16, 2011
National Journalism Center, Washington, D.C., July 29, 2011
Democracy, Institutions, and Political Economy Program, Duke University, March 2011
Politics Department, Princeton University, March 2011
Political Science Department, Columbia University, March 2011