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The existence of punishment opportunities has been shown to cause efficiency in public goods experiments to increase considerably. In this paper we ask whether punishment also has a downside in terms of process dissatisfaction. We conduct an experiment to study the conjecture that an environment...
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measures. Growing media penetration does not strengthen the effect of cut-backs on the level of unrest. We also find that …
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Does additional government spending improve the electoral chances of incumbent political parties? This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on this question. Our research design exploits discontinuities in federal funding to local governments in Brazil around several population...
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This paper provides regression discontinuity evidence on long-run and intergenerational education impacts of a temporary increase in federal transfers to local governments in Brazil. Revenues and expenditures of the communities benefiting from extra transfers temporarily increased by about 20%...
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by about 4 percentage points. The implied marginal cost of schooling— accounting for corruption and other leakages⠅
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causal effect of media exposure. Our estimates reveal important long and short run effects. An increase of one standard …
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Site licensing of electronic journals has been revolutionizing the way academic information is distributed. However, many librarians are concerned about the possibility that commercial publishers might abuse site licensing by practicing bundling. In this paper, we analyze how bundling afects...
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browse through news items that are available across competing outlets, choosing which ones to read or skip. Media firms are … implications on diverse aspects of new and traditional media. These include a rationale for tabloid news, a theory of optimal … advertisement placement in newscasts, and a justification for readers' migration to online media platforms in order to circumvent …
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Within a simple model of non-localized, Hotelling-type competition among arbitrary numbers of media outlets we … characterize quality and content of media under different ownership structures. Assuming advertising-sponsored, profit … potentially owned by the same media companies. We argue that externalities resulting from self-censorship could be empirically …
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We model the market for news as a two-sided market where newspapers sell news to readers who value accuracy, and sell space to advertisers who value advert-receptive readers. We show that a monopoly newspaper under-reports or biases news that sufficiently reduces advertiser profits, whereas in...
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