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Media, domocracy, and government action: Prevention vs. palliation in the time of cholera

Choe, Chongwoo; Raschky, Paul A. - 2011

This paper studies how media and democracy influence government action taken before and after a natural disaster. The … key elements in this relationship are the media's role as the provider of information to voters about government action … and the quality of democracy that pertains to how relevant election results are. We show that more media activity and more …

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Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? On the Questionable Association Between 16 and Pregnant and Teenage Childbearing

Jaeger, David A.; Joyce, Theodore J.; Kaestner, Robert - 2016

social media and show that it is fragile and highly sensitive to the choice of included periods and to the use of weights. We …

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Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? A Response to Jaeger, Joyce, and Kaestner (2016)

Kearney, Melissa S.; Levine, Phillip B. - 2016

) of our 2015 paper "Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of MTV's 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing." In …

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The role of platform quality and publicly owned platforms in the free-to-air broadcasting industry

González-Maestre, Miguel; Martínez-Sánchez, Francisco - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 1, pp. 105-124

In this study, we consider the role of a publicly owned platform and programme quality in the free-to-air broadcasting industry. We compare the equilibrium levels of advertising under private and mixed duopoly competition, and show that the connection between programme quality and advertising...

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Media's Role in the Making of a Democrat: Evidence from East Germany

Friehe, Tim; Müller, Helge; Neumeier, Florian - 2019

This paper explores the causal influence of media content on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving … notion that access to free media influences political attitudes and facilitates the consolidation of democracy. …

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War of the waves: Radio and resistance during World War II

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Onorator, Massimiliano G.; … - 2018

What is the role of the media in coordinating and mobilizing insurgency against a foreign military occupation? We …

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Electoral cycle bias in the media coverage of corruption news

Le Moglie, Marco; Turati, Gilberto - 2018

We investigate the existence of an "electoral cycle bias" in the timing of media coverage of news with high political …

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Identifying the effect of persuasion

Jun, Sung Jae; Lee, Sokbae - 2018

We set up an econometric model of persuasion and study identification of key parameters under various scenarios of data availability. We find that a commonly used measure of persuasion does not estimate the persuasion rate of any population in general. We provide formal identification results,...

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Free commuter newspapers and the market for paid-for daily newspapers

Masika, Michal - 2010

free newspapers and traditional media. Our identification strategy exploits the timing of free newspaper entry and allows … complement to traditional news media for highly educated readers. Therefore, we conclude that the effect of free newspapers on …

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Censorship as optimal persuasion

Kolotilin, Anton; Mylovanov, Timofiy; Zapechelnyuk, Andriy - In: Theoretical Economics 17 (2022) 2, pp. 561-585

our results to the problem of media censorship by a government. …

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