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Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a … social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media … networks they create, as well as individual characteristics and media consumption choices …

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Information Frictions and News Media in Global Value Chains

Bui, Ha; Huo, Zhen; Levchenko, Andrei A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We introduce information frictions into a tractable quantitative multi-country multi-sector model with global value chains. Producers in a sector do not perfectly observe contemporaneous shocks to other countries and sectors, and their output decisions respond to their idiosyncratic beliefs...

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Learning from Shared News : When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization

Bowen, T. Renee; Dmitriev, Danil; Galperti, Simone - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

opposite extreme beliefs resulting in severe polarization. Our results hold without media bias or fake news, so eliminating …

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Biases in Information Selection and Processing : Survey Evidence from the Pandemic

Faia, Ester; Fuster, Andreas; Pezone, Vincenzo; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How people form beliefs is crucial for understanding decision-making under uncertainty. This is particularly true in a situation such as a pandemic, where beliefs will affect behaviors that impact public health as well as the aggregate economy. We conduct two survey experiments to shed light on...

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Can Social Media Rhetoric Incite Hate Incidents?$bEvidence from Trump's "Chinese Virus" Tweets

Cao, Andy; Lindo, Jason M.; Zhong, Jiee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate whether Donald Trump's "Chinese Virus" tweets contributed to the rise of anti-Asian incidents. We find that the number of incidents spiked following Trump's initial "Chinese Virus" tweets and the subsequent dramatic rise in internet search activity for the phrase....

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Occupational Licensing and Accountant Quality : Evidence from the 150-Hour Rule

Barrios, John M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

I examine the effects of occupational licensing on the quality of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs). I exploit the staggered adoption of the 150-hour rule, which increases the educational requirements for a CPA license. The analysis shows that the rule decreases the number of entrants into the...

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From Lapdogs to Watchdogs : Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance

Vannutelli, Silvia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

A classic problem in public finance is the over-expenditure of local governments in expectation of a bailout from higher-level administrations. While monitoring could mitigate agency problems, it can itself be rendered ineffective if auditors are corruptible. I evaluate whether limiting...

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Merchants of Death : The Effect of Credit Supply Shocks on Hospital Outcomes

Aghamolla, Cyrus; Karaca-Mandic, Pinar; Li, Xuelin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This study examines the link between credit supply and hospital health outcomes. Using detailed data on hospitals and the banks that they borrow from, we use bank stress tests as exogenous shocks to credit access for hospitals that have lending relationships with tested banks. We find that...

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The Impact of Healthcare IT on Clinical Quality, Productivity and Workers

Bronsoler, Ari; Doyle, Joseph J.; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Adoption of health information and communication technologies ("HICT") has surged over the past two decades. We survey the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor. We find that HICT improves clinical outcomes and lowers...

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A Note on the Level of Customer Support by State Governments : A Mystery-Shopping Approach

Dube, Oeindrila; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Pope, Devin G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Many government services are provided at the state level such as unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and SNAP. Given the lack of competition, a natural worry is that customer support provided by states for these services is less than adequate. While there are many different measures of how a state...

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