) 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 …

Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This … undertaking allows us to highlight the key empirical challenges in the field of Internet and social media economics while …

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

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 …

How does the internet affect young people's mental health? We study this question in the context of Italy using … combine with information on the availability of highspeed internet at the municipal level. Our identification strategy … previously irrelevant but became salient after the advent of the internet. We find that access to high-speed internet has a …