bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias - i.e., bias in the … disentangle coverage bias from unobserved heterogeneity between observations. We apply our procedure to Wikipedia and examine … whether it has a coverage bias in its biographies of German (and French) Members of Parliament (MPs). Our analysis reveals a …

bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias – i.e., bias in the … disentangle coverage bias from unobserved heterogeneity between observations. We apply our procedure to Wikipedia and examine … whether it has a coverage bias in its biographies of German (and French) Members of Parliament (MPs). Our analysis reveals a …

years. This paper provides a new method to estimate media bias using a structural topic model and cosine similarity to test … assumption that a) potential media bias is demand-driven and b) election results can be used as a proxy for reader beliefs, the …