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We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption based on newspaper coverage. We use the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model and its applied tools of impulse response and variance decomposition analyses to track the response of...
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? And what are the implications of these changes for the information vot-ers are exposed to and for political accountability …
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In this study, we propose a novel approach to detect supply-side media bias, independent of external factors like ownership or editors' ideological leanings. Analyzing over 100,000 articles from The New York Times (NYT) and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), complemented by data from 22 million...
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Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via the media, are crucial in shaping how immigrants' role in society is perceived. We propose a new method combining advanced natural language processing tools with dictionaries to...
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education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …
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have better information about the state of the world than voters. Three types of institutions are compared: direct …
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comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …
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We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …
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implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … gathering and provision of information to parents at scale. In a field experiment across 22 middle and high schools, we used …
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