Drago, Francesco; Nannicini, Tommaso; Sobbrio, Francesco - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6 (2014) 3, pp. 159-88
This paper uses an original dataset covering the presence of local news in medium-large Italian cities in the period 1993–2010 to evaluate the effects of newspaper entry and exit on electoral participation, political selection, and government efficiency. Exploiting discrete changes in the...