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Television, Health, and Happiness : A Natural Experiment in West Germany
Chadi, Adrian; Hoffmann, Manuel - 2022
Watching television is the most time-consuming human activity besides work but its role for individual well-being is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087377
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Terrorism and the Media : The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks
Jetter, Michael - 2017
day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957500
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National or Local? The Demand for News in Italy During Covid-19
Castriota, Stefano; Delmastro, Marco; Tonin, Mirco - 2021
Looking at TV news viewership in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic, we investigate whether demand for national and local news depends on national or local events. Exploiting the fact that epidemiological developments display a great deal of variation among the different regions, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315156
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Famous after Death : The Effect of a Writer's Death on Book Sales
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022
In the standard neoclassical model consumers use all the available information and the demand for goods depends … exclusively on preferences and prices whereas other spurious information do not play any role. In the market for books, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078015
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Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards : Evidence from Chinese Teenagers
Cheung, Stephen L. - 2020
Economists model self-control problems through time-inconsistent preferences. Empirical tests of these preferences largely rely on experimental elicitation methods using monetary rewards, with several recent studies failing to find present bias for money. In this paper, we compare estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829926
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Job Assignments under Moral Hazard:The Peter Principle Revisited
Koch, Alexander Karl; Nafziger, Julia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often placeemployees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second,demotions are extremely rare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862318
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How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant
Gans, Joshua S. - 2011
We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to federal parliamentarians. First, we use parliamentary mentions to code over 100 public intellectuals on a left-right scale. We then estimate slant by using the number of mentions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117760
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Media Exposure and Internal Migration : Evidence from Indonesia
Farré, Lidia - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential … introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal reception due to topography to estimate the … under imperfect information, these findings are consistent with Indonesia citizens over-estimating the net gains from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119543
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Media Slant Against Foreign Owners : Downsizing
Friebel, Guido - 2012
We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much attention than a domestic firm. This quantitative slant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099711
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Meet the Press : How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit
Drago, Francesco - 2013
This paper evaluates the effects of changes in the supply of news provided by newspapers on electoral participation, political selection, and government efficiency. We address these issues in the Italian context by constructing a new dataset covering the presence of local news by different types...
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