Justin Frake
Assistant Professor of Strategy
University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Co-leads the VRscores project and studies human capital, labor markets, and how individuals shape organizational outcomes.
Project Team
Co-Leads
We are a small team of researchers responsible for producing and maintaining the VRscores data and website. We also have several papers that use the VRscores data. We are interested in public and transparent data to aid researchers in understanding the role of partisanship in the workplace and the role of the workplace in democracy.
Max Kagan
Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Management
Columbia Business School
Co-leads the VRscores project and studies how political ideology shapes organizational outcomes, combining experiments and large-scale administrative data to understand the impact of partisanship inside firms.
Reuben Hurst
Assistant Professor of Management & Organization
University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business
Co-leads the VRscores project and researches non-market strategy, diversity, and human capital — documenting how partisan sorting among workers shapes labor markets and organizational outcomes.
Research Collaborators
Coauthors who use VRscores data in ongoing papers and joint projects.
Matthew Lee
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management
Harvard Kennedy School
James White
PhD Candidate in Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship
University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge financial support from the University of Maryland Smith School of Business, the Michigan Ross School of Business, and the University of Michigan’s Year of Democracy Research Grant. Computational support from Advanced Research Computing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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