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Too hot to play it cool? : temperature and media bias
Stadelmann, David; Thomas, Tobias; Zakharov, Nikita - 2023
This paper examines the impact of outdoor temperature on media bias. We use 12 years of daily hand-coded data on the … local daily high temperatures to estimate the effect of heat on media bias in news reporting about the Republican and … 1°C increment in daily maximum temperature on a hot day (>25°C) leads to a 20% increase in the media bias measured as …
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Everybody's a victim? : global terror, well-being and political attitudes
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Elsayed, Ahmed - 2018
and economic anticipations play a minimal role, while traditional media filter the most salient events. The effect is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872810
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Student Quality as Measured by Lsat Scores : Migration Patterns in the U.S. News Rankings Era
Henderson, William D.; Morriss, Andrew P. - 2013
This study examines the change in entering class median LSAT, a key input into the U.S. News & World Report rankings, between 1993 and 2004. Using multivariate regression analysis, the authors model several factors that can influence the direction and magnitude of this change. The study presents...
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The Role of Innovative Development in Unconventional Hydrocarbon Exploitation in the Context of the Shale Gas Revolution in the USA
Grinets, Irina; Kaznacheev, Peter - 2015
Due to the recent drop in oil prices, there is a strong interest in the influence of the shale revolution on the global supply and demand of hydrocarbon fuels. Consequently, the attention of many economists and industry analysts is drawn to the technological, institutional and regulatory aspects...
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Media and polarization : evidence from the introduction of broadcast TV in the United States
Campante, Filipe R.; Hojman, Daniel - In: Journal of public economics 100 (2013), pp. 79-92
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Media-driven polarization : evidence from the US
Melki, Mickael; Sekeris, Petros - 2019
Using US data of media's coverage of politics and individual survey data, the authors document that in the states with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990916
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Media-driven polarization : evidence from the US
Melki, Mickael; Sekeris, Petros - 2019
The authors use US data on media coverage of politics and individual survey data to document that citizens exposed to … more politicized newspapers have more extreme political preferences. This polarization effect of media is mainly driven by …. More politicized media also reinforce other aspects of citizens’ political sophistication such as political knowledge. This …
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Information, voting behavior and electoral accountability
Nordin, Mattias - 2013
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Can Social Media Rhetoric Incite Hate Incidents?$bEvidence from Trump's "Chinese Virus" Tweets
Cao, Andy; Lindo, Jason M.; Zhong, Jiee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate whether Donald Trump's "Chinese Virus" tweets contributed to the rise of anti-Asian incidents. We find that the number of incidents spiked following Trump's initial "Chinese Virus" tweets and the subsequent dramatic rise in internet search activity for the phrase....
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Immigration, political ideologies and the polarization of American politics
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah; Matzat, Johannes; Mayda, … - 2020
over the medium-run, although the effects decline over time. The effects of migration are stronger if counties host …
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