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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation

Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...

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Historical Newspaper Data : A Researcher's Guide and Toolkit

Beach, Brian; Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Digitized historical newspaper databases offer a valuable research tool. A rapidly expanding set of studies use these … working with historical newspaper data. We provide a brief description of the evolution of historical newspapers, focusing on … contain only a selected sample of the universe of historical newspaper articles. We offer tools for evaluating the …

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Death and the Media : Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition

Costa, Dora L. - 2015

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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Revealing Malfeasance : How Local Media Facilitates Electoral Sanctioning of Mayors in Mexico

Larreguy, Horacio A. - 2014

We estimate the effect of local media outlets on political accountability in Mexico, focusing on malfeasance by municipal mayors. We study federal grants earmarked for infrastructure projects targeting the poor, and leverage two sources of plausibly exogenous variation. First, we exploit...

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Competition and Ideological Diversity : Historical Evidence from US Newspapers

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2012

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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Do Newspapers Serve the State? Incumbent Party Influence on the US Press, 1869-1928

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2012

Using data from 1869 to 1928, we estimate the effect of party control of state governments on the entry, exit, circulation, prices, number of pages, and content of Republican and Democratic daily newspapers. We exploit changes over time in party control of the governorship and state legislatures...

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The Balanced U.S. Press

Puglisi, Riccardo - 2011

We propose a new method for measuring the relative ideological positions of newspapers, voters, interest groups, and political parties. The method uses data on ballot propositions. We exploit the fact that newspapers, parties, and interest groups take positions on these propositions, and the...

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The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2009

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

Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - 2009

daily newspaper in the market. The next year, fewer candidates ran for municipal office in the Kentucky suburbs most reliant …

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Media Coverage of Political Scandals

Puglisi, Riccardo - 2008

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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