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competitors. We formulate a model of newspaper demand, entry, and political affiliation choice in which newspapers compete for … novel data on newspaper circulation, costs, and revenues. The estimated model implies that competition enhances ideological …
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political participation, with one additional newspaper increasing both presidential and congressional turnout by approximately 0 ….3 percentage points. Newspaper competition is not a key driver of turnout: our effect is driven mainly by the first newspaper in a …
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that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. We use variation in …
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We create a newspaper-based Equity Market Volatility (EMV) tracker that moves with the VIX and with the realized …
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daily newspaper in the market. The next year, fewer candidates ran for municipal office in the Kentucky suburbs most reliant …
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We study the agenda-setting political behavior of a large sample of U.S. newspapers during the last decade, and the behavior of smaller samples for longer time periods. Our purpose is to examine the intensity of coverage of economic issues as a function of the underlying economic conditions and...
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. We estimate a model of newspaper demand that incorporates slant explicitly, estimate the slant that would be chosen if … identity of a newspaper's owner explains far less of the variation in slant. We also present evidence on the role of pressure … from incumbent politicians, tastes of reporters, and newspaper competition in determining slant …
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We analyze the coverage of U.S. political scandals by U.S. newspapers during the past decade. Using automatic keyword-based searches we collected data on 35 scandals and approximately 200 newspapers. We find that Democratic-leaning newspapers -- i.e., those with a higher propensity to endorse...
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newspaper endorsements. We first develop a simple econometric model in which voters choose candidates under uncertainty and rely …
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In the late 19th Century, cities in Western Europe and the United States suffered from high levels of infectious disease. Over a 40 year period, there was a dramatic decline in infectious disease deaths in cities. As such objective progress in urban quality of life took place, how did the media...
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