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...cast by Democratic-leaning demographics. In a close race, like the 2000 presidential election, that margin could have meant the difference between victory and defeat. Though the study was only based on this particular election, the results can be extrapolated to elections nationwide, said Erzo F. P. Luttmer, an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School and one of the study’s co-authors. “Californian voters are no more or less likely to make mistakes. The technology used was the same,” he said. “There were a larger...
...Luttmer said that the study sought to explain whether or not membership in a religious congregation changes the degree to which people’s happiness and consumption are altered after an income shock...
...Luttmer said the study found that blacks and whites respond differently to the same type of change in household income...
Both Dehejia and Luttmer cautioned against applying the results of the study to explain the black response to hurricane Katrina, as newspapers like the Boston Globe and the New York Times have done...
...type of shock that Katrina provides is an order of magnitude greater than the types of shock in our experience,” Luttmer said. “Whole congregations were disintegrated...The links between Katrina and our study are speculative...