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What Drives Demand for Government-Controlled News? Evidence from Russia
Simonov, Andrey - 2020
News consumers in many authoritarian countries read government-controlled sources even when independent sources are available. We test whether these choices reflect a preference for pro-government coverage versus persistent tastes for specific websites. We exploit textual data from news...
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Virus Shook the Streaming Star : Estimating the COVID-19 Impact on Music Consumption
Sim, Jaeung; Cho, Daegon; Hwang, Youngdeok; Telang, Rahul - 2021
Many have speculated that the recent outbreak of COVID-19 has led to a surge in the use of online streaming services. However, this assumption has not been closely examined for music streaming services, the consumption patterns of which can be different from video streaming services. To provide...
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro’ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact...
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro'ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193273
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The Effect of Internet Piracy on Cd Sales : Cross-Section Evidence
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2021
-country evidence in support of the claim of losses due to internet piracy made by the music industry. For the U.S. we also assess the … potential loss from internet piracy using detailed survey data. We conclude the empirical analysis by forecasting CD sales for … 2002. The results suggest that internet piracy played a significant role in the decline in CD sales in 2001, but can hardly …
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The Persuasive Effect of Fox News : Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Simonov, Andrey; Sacher, Szymon; Dubé, Jean-Pierre; … - 2021
To what extent do mass media outlets influence viewers' trust in scientific evidence and compliance with behavior recommended by scientific experts? Exploiting the US lock-down period of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, we analyze a large longitudinal database that combines daily...
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How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2020
How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843176
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How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2020
How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843439
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Aggregation of Consumer Ratings : An Application to Yelp.com
Dai, Daisy - 2017
Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd, the way in which they are aggregated is a central decision faced by platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972530
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How broadband internet affects labor market matching
Bhuller, Manudeep; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Vigtel, … - 2020
How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225927