This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform …

We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to … then estimate slant by using the number of mentions that each public intellectual receives in each media outlet. Second, we … media are quite centrist, with very few outlets being statistically distinguishable from the middle of Australian politics …

This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012 …. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which … heightened media attention. Second, less attention is devoted to attacks in countries located further away from the US. Third …

; congress ; banks ; big business ; media ; courts …

attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya. Exploiting geographical and temporal variation in wireless signal … coverage and attacks, we establish that media access reinforces negative effects of terrorism on schooling. These effects are … confirmed when we instrument both media signal and the incidence of attacks. For households with media access, we also find a …

Do media slant news in favor of the banks they borrow from? We study how lending connections affect news coverage of … creditors. Our findings support the concern that financial distress and increased dependence on creditors may undermine media …

; political economy ; instrumental variables ; mass media ; internet …