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The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat - 2017
This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in...
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Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation
Hausman, Jerry - 1997
so that all public schools and libraries in the U.S. will receive subsidized service to the Internet. The cost of the … of the higher taxation of interstate telephone services to fund the Internet access discounts. I estimate the cost to the …), or the efficiency loss to the economy for every $1 raised to pay for the Internet access discounts is an additional $1 …
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders - 2015
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … adoption of broadband internet in firms. Our results suggest that broadband internet improves (worsens) the labor outcomes and … internet. We find suggestive evidence that broadband adoption in firms complements skilled workers in executing nonroutine …
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Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability : Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela
Knight, Brian - 2019
This paper investigates the effects of state censorship of opposition media using evidence from the closing of RCTV, a popular opposition television channel in Venezuela. The government did not renew RCTV's license, and the channel was replaced overnight, during May 2007, by a pro-government...
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Press Coverage and Political Accountability
Snyder, James M, Jr - 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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What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers
Gentzkow, Matthew - 2006
We construct a new index of media slant that measures whether a news outlet.s language is more similar to that of a congressional Republican or Democrat. We apply the measure to study the market forces that determine political con- tent in the news. We estimate a model of newspaper demand that...
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The Rise of the Fourth Estate : How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered
Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Goldin, Claudia; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2004
A free and informative press is widely agreed to be crucial to the democratic process today. But throughout much of the nineteenth century U.S. newspapers were often public relations tools funded by politicians, and newspaper independence was a rarity. The newspaper industry underwent...
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Who Owns the Media?
Djankov, Simeon - 2001
than in the printed media. Government ownership of the media is generally associated with less press freedom, fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470436
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Freedom of Speech, Deterrence, and Compellence in the Parliament
Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci; Zhang, Jie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of the impact of Parliamentary immunity on the behavior and performance of politicians. Leveraging a Constitutional Amendment, the adoption of which lifted the immunity of 132 of the 550 members of the Turkish Parliament, we find that losing...
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Does Conflict of Interest Lead to Biased Coverage? Evidence from Movie Reviews
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2014
Media outlets are increasingly owned by conglomerates, inducing a conflict of interest: a media outlet can bias its coverage to benefit companies in the same group. We test for bias by examining movie reviews by media outlets owned by News Corp.--such as the Wall Street Journal--and by Time...
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