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Directed Giving : Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Batista, Catia - 2014

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. When given the option, dictators do a large fraction of giving...

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Subsidies and the African Green Revolution : Direct Effects and Social Network Spillovers of Randomized Input Subsidies in Mozambique

Carter, Michael - 2019

-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa. A …

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Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment

Fafchamps, Marcel - 2015

We run a novel field experiment to link managers of African manufacturing firms. The experiment features exogenous link formation, exogenous seeding of information, and exogenous assignment to treatment and placebo. We study the impact of the experiment on firm business practices outside of the...

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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations-innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...

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Competition and Ideological Diversity : Historical Evidence from Us Newspapers

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2012

find that households preferred like-minded news and that newspapers used their political orientation to differentiate from … competitors. We formulate a model of newspaper demand, entry, and political affiliation choice in which newspapers compete for …

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The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2009

We use new data on entries and exits of US daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004 to estimate effects on political … events and allows for the possibility of confounding trends. We find that newspapers have a robust positive effect on … recent years. We find no evidence that partisan newspapers affect party vote shares, with confidence intervals that rule out …

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Press Coverage and Political Accountability

Snyder, James M. - 2008

In this paper we estimate the impact of press coverage on citizen knowledge, politicians' actions, and policy. We find that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. We use variation in this fit due to redistricting to identify the effects...

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Policy News and Stock Market Volatility

Baker, Scott R. - 2019

We create a newspaper-based Equity Market Volatility (EMV) tracker that moves with the VIX and with the realized volatility of returns on the S&P 500. Parsing the underlying text, we find that 72 percent of EMV articles discuss the Macroeconomic Outlook, and 44 percent discuss Commodity Markets....

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Do Newspapers Matter? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Closure of the Cincinnati Post

Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - 2010

newspapers - even underdogs such as the Post, which had a circulation of just 27,000 when it closed - can have a substantial and …

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Partisan Bias in Economic News : Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers

Larcinese, Valentino - 2010

We study the agenda-setting political behavior of a large sample of U.S. newspapers during the last decade, and the … between the endorsement policy of newspapers, and the differential coverage of bad/good economic news as a function of the … president's political affiliation. We find evidence that newspapers with pro-Democratic endorsement pattern systematically give …

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