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This paper explores how specific media images affect adolescent attitudes and outcomes. The specific context examined …
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This paper studies the role of consumer learning in the demand for recorded music by examining the impact of an artist%u2019s new album on sales of past and future albums. Using detailed album sales data for a sample of 355 artists, we show that the release of a new album increases sales of old...
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that electoral acceleration is in part due to the structure of media markets. Candidates find it easier to direct campaign … efforts at larger groups because many existing media outlets cater to this audience. …
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more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of … agencies, including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the integration of media markets to … value of civic engagement requires evidence on the size of the positive spillovers from local media. In this paper, we …
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We analyze the coverage of U.S. political scandals by U.S. newspapers during the past decade. Using automatic keyword-based searches we collected data on 35 scandals and approximately 200 newspapers. We nd that Democratic-leaning newspapers -- i.e., those with a higher propensity to endorse...
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There are two different types of media bias. One bias, which we refer to as ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire …'s attempt to simply create a memorable story. We examine competition among media outlets in the presence of these biases …
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The ability of firms to reposition their products can determine the effects of demand shocks, mergers and policy interventions in differentiated product markets. This paper estimates a dynamic oligopoly model to measure repositioning costs in the commercial radio industry. Based on a set of...
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quality when its reports conform to the consumer's prior expectations. We use this fact to build a model of media bias in …
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A large theoretical and empirical literature explores whether politicians and political parties change their policy positions in response to voters' preferences. This paper asks the opposite question: do political parties affect public attitudes on important policy issues? Problems of reverse...
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progress in urban quality of life took place, how did the media report this trend? At that time newspapers were the major …
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