Jeffrey Milyo

{{Short description|Professor of economics}}

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| institution = University of Missouri

| field = Political economy
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| alma_mater = University of Connecticut
Stanford University

| doctoral_advisor = Roger Noll

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Jeffrey Dennis Milyo{{Cite thesis |last=Milyo |first=Jeffrey Dennis |title=The Political Economy of the Congressional Budget Process |date=1994 |publisher=Stanford University |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CeIgAQAAIAAJ |language=en}} is an American economist and professor of economics at the University of Missouri. He is also a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.{{Cite web |url=https://www.cato.org/people/jeffrey-milyo |title=Jeffrey Milyo |website=Cato Institute}} One of his best-known studies is a 2005 one that he co-authored with Timothy Groseclose examining media bias. The study concluded that most major media outlets in the United States have a liberal bias, although its methodology has been criticized.{{Cite web |url=https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/bias_study_falls_437_percent_s.php |title=Bias Study Falls 43.7 Percent Short |last=Gillette |first=Felix |date=2005-12-20 |website=Columbia Journalism Review |language=en |access-date=2018-04-24}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/ombudsman/2008/11/when_it_comes_to_core_beliefs_1.html |title=When It Comes to Core Beliefs, Bias is Everywhere |date=2008-11-03 |website=NPR |access-date=2018-04-24}} He has also researched the political effects of campaign finance laws in the United States.{{Cite news |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/cq/2007/03/19/cq_2427.html?pagewanted=all |title=From CQ Weekly: Public Financing: Rebirth or Irrelevance |last=Cochran |first=John |date=2007-03-19 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-04-24}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/weekinreview/24kirkpatrick.html |title=Does Corporate Money Lead to Political Corruption? |last=Kirkpatrick |first=David D. |date=2010 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-04-24 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}