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Special Interest Groups versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...
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Lost in the Net? Broadband Internet and Youth Mental Health
Donati, Dante; Durante, Ruben; Sobbrio, Francesco; … - 2022
How does the internet affect young people's mental health? We study this question in the context of Italy using administrative data on the universe of cases of mental disorders diagnosed in Italian hospitals between 2001 and 2013, which we combine with information on the availability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351741
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The Behavioral, Economic, and Political Impact of the Internet and Social Media: Empirical Challenges and Approaches
Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...
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Internet and Voting in the Web 2.0 Era: Evidence from a Local Broadband Policy
Poy, Samuele; Schüller, Simone - 2016
This article analyzes the impact of a local broadband expansion policy on electoral turnout and party vote share. We exploit a unique policy intervention involving staged broadband infrastructure installation across rural municipalities in the Province of Trento (Italy), thus generating a source...
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Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?
Chung, Andy; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Singleton, Carl; … - 2024
We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for adults this figure is 2.7%. Using the American Add Health Study, we show that adults who are...
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Media slant against foreign owners: Downsizing
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias - 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/10010289889
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Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10011096063
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The effect of deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised good and its substitutes: The case of over-the-counter weight loss products
Cawley, John H.; Avery, Rosemary J.; Eisenberg, Matthew - 2013
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293141
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The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products
Cawley, John; Avery, Rosemary; Eisenberg, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010630728
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Between Agora and Shopping Mall
Falkinger, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761928