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Local Candidates and Distributive Politics under Closed-list Proportional Representation
Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018
Geographic representation is an important consideration in candidate nominations, even under closed-list proportional … representation (PR), and may even matter for distributive policy outcomes. However, since nominations are determined strategically …, the causal effects of local representation are difficult to identify. We investigate the relationship between local …
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Large Losses from Little Lies: Randomly Assigned Opportunity to Misrepresent Substantially Lowers Later Cooperation and Worsens Income Inequality
Drouvelis, Michalis; Gerson, Jennifer; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020
-to-treat analysis, we demonstrated that randomly allowing people to misrepresent their gender identity information reduced the aggregate … go on to defect than participants in the control and the true gender groups, those who were paired with a potential … their gender received a payoff of zero from the prisoner's dilemma game. Our results suggest that even small short …
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Detecting Coverage Bias in User-Generated Content
Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2021
The importance of user-generated content is growing as media consumption is moving online; yet, investigations of media bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias – i.e., bias in the amount of coverage certain topics or issues receive...
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Selective Sharing of News Items and the Political Position of News Outlets
Freitag, Julian; Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2021
We present a new measure for the political position of news outlets based on politicians' selective sharing of news items. Politicians predominantly share news items that are in line with their political position, hence, one can infer the political position of news outlets from the politicians'...
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Social Recognition: Experimental Evidence from Blood Donors
Götte, Lorenz; Tripodi, Egon - 2022
Does social recognition motivate prosocial individuals? We run large-scale experiments among members of Italy’s main blood donors association, testing social recognition both through social media and peer groups. We experimentally disentangle visibility concerns and peer comparisons, and we...
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Online Versus Offline: Which Networks Spur Protests?
Potrafke, Niklas; Roesel, Felix - 2022
Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria—a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
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Crowding Out the Truth? A Simple Model of Misinformation, Polarization, and Meaningful Social Interactions
Germano, Fabrizio; Gómez, Vicenç; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2022
Social media are at the center of countless debates on polarization, misinformation, and even the state of democracy in various parts of the world. An essential feature of social media is the ranking algorithm that determines how content is presented to the users. This paper studies the dynamic...
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Drivers of Digital Attention: Evidence from a Social Media Experiment
Aridor, Guy - 2022
I study demand for social media services by conducting an experiment where I monitor how participants spend time on digital services and shut off access to Instagram or YouTube on their mobile phones. I characterize how participants substitute their time during and after the restrictions, which...
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Debunking "Fake News" on Social Media: Short-Term and Longer-Term Effects of Fact Checking and Media Literacy Interventions
Berger, Lara Marie; Kerkhof, Anna; Mindl, Felix; … - 2023
We conduct a randomized survey experiment to compare the short- and longer-term effects of fact checking to a brief media literacy intervention. We show that the impact of fact checking is limited to the corrected fake news, whereas media literacy helps to distinguish between false and correct...
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Do Twitter's Science Stars Get a Citation Premium?
Lessmann, Christian; Önder, Ali Sina - 2023
We analyze whether the social media popularity of Twitter star scientists, who were identified by Science in a 2014 report, pays off in terms of an increased number of citations. To establish a causal relationship, we use the COVID-19 global pandemic as a quasi-natural experiment exogenously...
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