Timothy Jay Groseclose

Timothy Jay Groseclose (born September 22, 1964) is an American academic. He is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, where he holds the Adam Smith Chair at the Mercatus Center.

Early life Timothy Groseclose was born on September 22, 1964, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He was graduated from Lakeside High School in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1983. He received a PhD in Political Economics from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1992. However, he felt ostracized as a conservative faculty member, and decided to resign. The article suggested the American media had a liberal bias. Drawing upon this article, Groseclose published "Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind" in 2012. He adds that conservative media outlets like Fox News and the Drudge Report are only moderately conservative. Brozell also praised Groseclose's willingness to accept peer review, even from liberal critics. Furthermore, Steven Levitt, professor of economics at the University of Chicago and co-author of Freakoconomics took the position that, “I'm no conservative, but I loved Left Turn. Tim Groseclose has written the best kind of book: one that is firmly anchored in rigorous academic research, but is still so much fun to read that it is hard to put down. Liberals will not like the conclusions of this book, which in my opinion, is all the more reason why they should want to read it.”

Gasper (2011) shows that the estimates are sensitive to the time period under examination and that removing a single think tank shifts estimates dramatically. Additionally, the estimates of media bias do not comport with more direct measures of media bias derived from computational text analysis or sometimes face validity.

Personal life Groseclose is married to Victoria Groseclose (née DeGuzman). They have two children.