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-educational media content as a factor in the widening educational gender gap. Based on time-use data, we show that a possible …
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real-time media. It subsequently attenuates, but hate crime incidence cumulates to higher levels than prior to the series … take place, local Muslim populations face a media magnified likelihood of hate crime victimization following international … and research perspective, means that the process of media magnification of hate crime needs to be better understood. …
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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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Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the …
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Reporters and editors may not have the same ideology. When an editor wants to employ a new reporter with a different ideology, they have to negotiate the price of moving from their own to the other's ideology. We focus on the job market for reporters, where the agents negotiate over the...
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Can counter-propaganda by a foreign democratic country help to overthrow an authoritarian military regime? And if so, what are the mechanisms through which this happens? We analyze these questions in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC...
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In democracies voters rely on media outlets to learn about politically salient issues. This raises an important … question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment - the staggered introduction … of the Digital TV signal in Italy - to measure the effect of media persuasion on the perceptions individuals hold. We …
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Pay-what-you-want schemes can be a useful tool to finance high quality and independent news media without restricting …
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and economic anticipations play a minimal role, while traditional media filter the most salient events. The effect is …
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constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Combining data on campaign finance donations made by individuals and …
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