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Overview

Wendy M. Rahn is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, focusing on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, Finance, Political Science and International Relations, and Physiology.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention

The scientist has published in several academic venues, including:

  • The Journal of Economic History
  • Journal of Financial Economics
  • World Medical & Health Policy
  • RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Wendy M. Rahn's recent papers include:

  • Financial Asset Ownership and Political Partisanship: Liberty Bonds and Republican Electoral Success in the 1920s, 2020, The Journal of Economic History
  • When Uncle Sam introduced Main Street to Wall Street: Liberty Bonds and the transformation of American finance, 2021, Journal of Financial Economics
  • Chronic health conditions and voter turnout: Results from the 2012 United States presidential election, 2021, World Medical & Health Policy
  • Life-Course Transitions in Rural Residence and Old-Age Mortality in Iowa, 1930-2014, 2022, RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
  • When Uncle Sam Introduced Main Street to Wall Street: Liberty Bonds and the Transformation of American Finance, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors with whom Wendy M. Rahn has collaborated include:

  • Eric Hilt
  • Matthew Jaremski
  • Cydney M. McGuire
  • Sarah E. Gollust
  • Evan Roberts

Best Publications

  • Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital

    John Brehm;Wendy M Rahn

  • The Role of Partisan Stereotypes in Information Processing about Political Candidates

    Wendy M. Rahn

  • The Origins and Consequences of Public Trust in Government: A Time Series Analysis

    Virginia A. Chanley;Thomas J. Rudolph;Wendy M. Rahn

  • Rise of the Trumpenvolk: Populism in the 2016 Election

    J. Eric Oliver;Wendy M. Rahn

  • Social Trust and Value Change: The Decline of Social Capital in American Youth, 1976-1995

    Wendy M. Rahn;John E. Transue

  • A Social Cognitive Model of Candidate Appraisal

    Wendy M. Rahn;John H. Aldrich;Eugene Borgida;John L. Sullivan

  • Rationalization and Derivation Processes in Survey Studies of Political Candidate Evaluation

    Wendy M. Rahn;Jon A. Krosnick;Marijke Breuning

  • A Tale of Political Trust in American Cities

    Wendy M. Rahn;Thomas J. Rudolph

  • INDIVIDUAL AND CONTEXTUAL VARIATIONS IN POLITICAL CANDIDATE APPRAISAL

    Wendy M. Rahn;John H. Aldrich;Eugene Borgida

  • National Elections as Institutions for Generating Social Capital

    Wendy M. Rahn;John Brehm;Neil Carlson

  • National Elections as Institutions for Building Social Capital

    Wendy M. Rahn;John Brehm;Neil Carlson

  • Affect as Information: The Role of Public Mood in Political Reasoning

    Wendy M. Rahn

  • Candidate Appraisal and Human Nature: Man and Superman in the 1984 Election

    John L. Sullivan;John H. Aldrich;Eugene Borgida;Wendy M Rahn

  • A Framework for the Study of Public Mood

    Wendy M. Rahn;Brian Kroeger;Cynthia M. Kite

  • Political Advertising and Public Mood: A Study of Children's Political Orientations

    Wendy M. Rahn;Rebecca M Hirshorn

  • Public Trust in Government in the Reagan Years and Beyond

    Jenny Chanley;Thomas J. Rudolph;Wendy M. Rahn

  • Geographies of Trust

    Wendy M. Rahn;Kwang Suk Yoon;Michael Garet;Steven Lipson

  • The Bodies Politic: Chronic Health Conditions and Voter Turnout in the 2008 Election

    Sarah E. Gollust;Wendy M. Rahn

  • Activation and application of political party stereotypes: The role of television

    Wendy M. Rahn;Katherine J. Cramer

  • Trust in Local Governments

    Wendy M. Rahn;Thomas J. Rudolph

  • Physical inactivity and risk of poor quality of life among elderly cancer survivors compared to women without cancer: the Iowa Women’s Health Study

    Cindy K. Blair;Kim Robien;Maki Inoue-Choi;Wendy M Rahn

  • Framing Food Policy: The Case of Raw Milk

    Wendy M. Rahn;Sarah E. Gollust;Xuyang Tang

  • Turning Citizens into Investors: Promoting Savings with Liberty Bonds During World War I

    Eric Hilt;Wendy M. Rahn

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Rudolph
Thomas J. Rudolph University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eugene Borgida
Eugene Borgida University of Minnesota
Sarah E. Gollust
Sarah E. Gollust University of Minnesota
John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan University of Minnesota
John H. Aldrich
John H. Aldrich Duke University
Jon A. Krosnick
Jon A. Krosnick Stanford University
James N. Druckman
James N. Druckman University of Rochester
George E. Marcus
George E. Marcus Williams College
Larry M. Bartels
Larry M. Bartels Vanderbilt University

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