Affective Polarization Did Not Increase During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway, James N. Druckman, Matthew Gentzkow

NBER Working Paper No. 28036
Issued in October 2020

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We acknowledge funding from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Northwestern University, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies, and the National Science Foundation (grant number: DGE-1656518). Anna Wang provided excellent research assistance.The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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