Milan Singh

WRITER AND POLLSTER

I'm a fellow at The Argument, where I write about polling and politics. You can subscribe here. I graduated from Yale in 2026 with a bachelor's degree in economics, focusing on applied econometrics and industrial organization. My thesis was on the impact of tariffs on U.S. manufacturing employment from 2018–2024.

I founded the Yale Youth Poll. You can check it out here. I've previously worked at Slow Boring, the Niskanen Center, Blueprint Research, and WelcomePAC.

I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and I live in Washington, DC. You can reach me at milansingh03@gmail.com or on Twitter at @milansingh03.

Selected writing

On economics and markets:

"The anti-market delusion at the heart of the housing crisis," The Argument, April 23, 2026
"Who's really ordering all that DoorDash?" The Argument, March 12, 2026 (with Josh Kalla)
"Online sports betting hurts consumers," Slow Boring, August 10, 2024 (with Ben Krauss)
"How AI Could Make UI Fraud Easier," Niskanen Center, June 10, 2024 (with Matt Darling)
"Larry Summers isn't worried about secular stagnation anymore," Slow Boring, April 18, 2024
"I was wrong about the American Rescue Plan," Slow Boring, July 30, 2023
"How fracking reshaped the world," Slow Boring, July 7, 2023
"Tax increases are the best cure for inflation," Slow Boring, March 21, 2023 (with Simon Bazelon)
"Deadweight loss, explained," Slow Boring, November 14, 2022
"The problem with flexible average inflation targeting," Slow Boring, May 14, 2022
"The American Rescue Plan was too big," Slow Boring, April 14, 2022
"The case against legalizing gambling," Slow Boring, March 19, 2022

On polling and elections:

"Who are America's biggest antisemites?" The Argument, April 14, 2026 (with Aharon Shelef)
"The liberal case for voter ID," The Argument, March 24, 2026
"Is caring about democracy a luxury belief?" The Argument, February 26, 2026
"We polled young Americans on antisemitism and Israel-Palestine. Here's what we found," Yale Youth Poll, December 8, 2025 (with Jack L. Dozier, Karla Cortes, Sofia Beck, Daniel Wang, and Aharon Shelef)
"Sen. Markey: Pass the torch," CommonWealth Beacon, September 25, 2025 (with James Nichols-Worley)
"Postmortem: Why we got the New York City mayoral primary wrong," Yale Youth Poll, August 13, 2025 (with Sofia Beck, Daniel Wang, and Zachary Donnini)
"Democrats can't depend on young voters anymore," Yale Youth Poll, May 1, 2025 (with Zachary Donnini)
"Most young people aren't liberals," Slow Boring, June 5, 2024
"The rise of the liberal Democrat," Slow Boring, August 5, 2023
"Independent state legislature theory, explained," Slow Boring, June 29, 2023
"Most Americans are moderates," Slow Boring, June 28, 2022
"Democrats have changed a lot since 2012," Slow Boring, May 11, 2022 (with Matthew Yglesias)

On higher education:

"The impending crisis in higher education," Yale Daily News, February 9, 2026
"Can American universities be fixed?" Yale Daily News, August 28, 2025 (with Teddy Witt)
"Anti-intellectualism is bad for Yale and America," Yale Daily News, July 7, 2025
"Free speech must protect views not worth hearing," Yale Daily News, April 25, 2025
"The real value of an 'A'," Yale Daily News, December 5, 2023