Sahil Chinoy
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Political Science
Yale University
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Political Science
Yale University
Hello! I am a postdoc at Yale’s Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics. In Fall 2026, I will join Stanford’s Department of Political Science as an assistant professor.
My research is on the contemporary and 20th-century political economy of the United States.
I received my Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in May 2025. Previously, I was a graphics editor at The New York Times, and before that, I studied physics and economics at UC Berkeley.
Political Sorting in the U.S. Labor Market: Evidence and Explanations
with Martin Koenen
Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Differences
with Nathan Nunn, Sandra Sequeira, and Stefanie Stantcheva
Conditionally accepted, American Economic Review
with Jacob Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Martin Koenen, and Vincent Pons
Vanguard: Black Veterans and Civil Rights After World War I
with Desmond Ang
Quarterly Journal of Economics, September 2025
The Great War and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
with Desmond Ang
The New York Times
2019-08-08Let Us Predict Whether You’re a Democrat or a Republican
2019-07-10The Racist History Behind Facial Recognition
2019-06-26What Happened to America’s Political Center of Gravity?
2019-05-23The College Dropout Crisis
2019-04-16We Built an ‘Unbelievable’ (but Legal) Facial Recognition Machine
2019-01-26How Every Member Got to Congress
2018-12-21Test Your Knowledge of American Incarceration
2018-11-29To Help Prevent the Next Big Wildfire, Let the Forest Burn
2018-11-08How the N.R.A. Builds Loyalty and Fanaticism
2018-11-05How the Midterms Made Us Feel: Afraid, Then Upset
2018-10-11Heat and Humidity Are a Killer Combination
2018-08-27A Simple Way to Help Level the Playing Field of College Admissions
2018-08-22Trump’s Growing Obsession With the ‘Witch Hunt’
2018-08-09Why Songs of the Summer Sound the Same
2018-06-27MS-13 Isn’t the Problem Trump Says It Is
2018-06-21What 7 Creepy Patents Reveal About Facebook
2018-05-24The Places in the U.S. Where Disaster Strikes Again and Again
2018-03-02How to Buy a Gun in 15 Countries
The Washington Post
2017-08-19Is your U.S. representative holding a town hall in August? Probably not.
2017-08-11Leaving town at rush hour? Here’s how far you’re likely to get from America’s largest cities.
2017-07-29Extreme candidates lose because they boost the other party’s turnout, research finds
2017-07-13Shoplifting in Chicago dropped after a change in the food stamp program
2017-07-13Why so many NHL and NBA teams have won back-to-back championships
The Los Angeles Times