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Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096063
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Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit
Drago, Francesco; Nannicini, Tommaso; Sobbrio, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper evaluates the effects of changes in the supply of news provided by newspapers on electoral participation, political selection, and government efficiency. We address these issues in the Italian context by constructing a new dataset covering the presence of local news by different types...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959747
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How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant
Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to … then estimate slant by using the number of mentions that each public intellectual receives in each media outlet. Second, we … media are quite centrist, with very few outlets being statistically distinguishable from the middle of Australian politics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371869
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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868129
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Terrorism and the Media
Jetter, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012 …. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which … heightened media attention. Second, less attention is devoted to attacks in countries located further away from the US. Third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959855
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Media Exposure and Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia
Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
causal effect of media exposure. Our estimates reveal important long and short run effects. An increase of one standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325431
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American Idol: Evidence of Same-Race Preferences?
Lee, Jungmin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This study examines whether viewers of the popular television show, American Idol, are racially biased. I find strong evidence for same-race preferences, in particular among black viewers. Featuring more black contestants attracts more black households to tune in to watch the show. And, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703397
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The Italian Job: Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in Serie A
Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
significant "winners-take-all" effects, more competitive balance may increase corruption unless media concentration is also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703633
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Are Workers in the Cultural Industries Paid Differently?
Wetzels, Cecile - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper aims to explore wage differentials between employees in three sub-industries of the cultural industries compared with the main (1-digit level) industry to which they belong. We use data from the Wage Indicator Questionnaire 2001/2002, which includes information on 12,757 employees in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703804
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Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands
Kranenburg, Hans L. van; Palm, Franz C.; Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper studies the effects of aggregate, industry-, and firm-specific factors on the exit hazard rates in the market for daily newspapers in The Netherlands from 1950 to 1996. We present a brief overview of the exit literature. On the basis of the existing empirical evidence, we decided to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700941