We study the impact of the first American party committed to redistribution from rich to poor on anti-Black media …

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 demand for both national news and, more surprisingly, local news …

social media and show that it is fragile and highly sensitive to the choice of included periods and to the use of weights. We …

) of our 2015 paper "Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of MTV's 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing." In …

-educational media content as a factor in the widening educational gender gap. Based on time-use data, we show that a possible …

What motivates kidnapping decisions by rebel groups? This paper studies news coverage of a proposed prisoner exchange … early 2000s. We propose that AH News nourished the FARC's expectations of such an agreement, thereby altering their actions … variation crowding out AH News. We find AH News systematically shifted the FARC's attention away from financial kidnappings …

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 …

This paper investigates the effect of media coverage on immigration attitudes. It combines data on immigration coverage … news consumption. …