Linking the location and timing of FEMA-declared disasters to large-scale electoral survey data, we study how the experience of a natural disaster affects climate change beliefs, and how experience interacts with ideology. Contrary to the predictions of standard learning models, we find evidence...

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...