In democracies voters rely on media outlets to learn about politically salient issues. This raises an important … question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment – the staggered introduction … of the Digital TV signal in Italy – to measure the effect of media persuasion on the perceptions individuals hold. We …

In democracies voters rely on media outlets to learn about politically salient issues. This raises an important … question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment - the staggered introduction … of the Digital TV signal in Italy - to measure the effect of media persuasion on the perceptions individuals hold. We …

media on church membership. A differences-in-differences strategy is used to explore the effect in question. The hypothesis … issues promoted by some provocative event, mass media can substantially affect religious choice. To check if this is the case …, we compare the dynamics of religious choice of those exposed to alternative media reports on church topics and the rest …

To what extent do mass media outlets influence viewers' trust in scientific evidence and compliance with behavior …-at-home behavior. The results imply a media persuasion rate that is larger than typical advertising persuasion rates on consumer …

Does the consumption of ideologically congruent news on social media exacerbate polarization? I estimate the effects of … social media news exposure by conducting a large field experiment randomly offering participants subscriptions to … conservative or liberal news outlets on Facebook. I collect data on the causal chain of media effects: subscriptions to outlets …

This paper is a contribution to the worldwide media reform movement, which is seeking ways to reverse the decline of … competing media organizations. I compare these reform designs, and recommend an experimental approach to help us improve our … union. With media funding of only $8,000 per year, we succeeded in encouraging creation of new media and improvement of …

individual fertility decisions are affected by role models or information about other ways of life promoted by media. …