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

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative …

Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the …

Can media coverage of shooters encourage future mass shootings? We explore the link between the day-to-day prime time …

We study the role of media reporting of alleged adverse effects of influenza vaccination on adults' (aged 50 or more … campaign, unaffected by media cases, we show that media reporting decreases flu vaccination by about 2.5% (78 fewer …

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 …

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 …

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 …