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Effects of increased transparency on political divides and MP behavior: Evidence from televised question hours in the Finnish Parliament

Nieminen, Jeremias; Simola, Salla; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023

We study the causal effects of increasing the transparency of parliamentary speeches on polarization and other types of MP behavior. Our research design utilizes the 1989 introduction of TV broadcasting to those Finnish government's parliamentary question hours held on the first Thursday of...

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Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion

Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016

-educational media content as a factor in the widening educational gender gap. Based on time-use data, we show that a possible …

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Who trusts Berlusconi? An econometric analysis of the role of television in the political arena

Sabatini, Fabio - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first econometric investigation into the role of television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust in television to be the most significant predictor of...

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Fictional expectations and the global media in the Greek debt crisis: A topic modeling approach

Daniel, Volker; Neubert, Magnus; Orban, Agnes - 2018

We study the role of global media during the Greek debt crisis and relate it to the transmission of events on financial … only relevant for financial markets when they are covered in the media, whereas events without media coverage have no …

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Captivating News in Colombia

Aparicio, Juan P.; Jetter, Michael - 2020

What motivates kidnapping decisions by rebel groups? This paper studies news coverage of a proposed prisoner exchange program (the Acuerdo Humanitario; AH) in connection with FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) kidnappings in the early 2000s. We propose that AH News nourished the...

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The Political Economy of Propaganda: Evidence from US Newspapers

Ottinger, Sebastian; Winkler, Max - 2022

We study the impact of the first American party committed to redistribution from rich to poor on anti-Black media …

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Visual Representation and Stereotypes in News Media

Ash, Elliott; Durante, Ruben; Grebenshchikova, Maria; … - 2022

We propose a new method for measuring gender and ethnic stereotypes in news reports. By combining computer vision and natural language processing tools, the method allows us to analyze both images and text as well as the interaction between the two. We apply this approach to over 2 million web...

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Terrorism, Media Coverage and Education: Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya

Alfano, Marco; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022

attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya. Exploiting geographical and temporal variation in wireless signal … coverage and attacks, we establish that media access reinforces negative effects of terrorism on schooling. These effects are … confirmed when we instrument both media signal and the incidence of attacks. For households with media access, we also find a …

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Identifying the effect of persuasion

Jun, Sung Jae; Lee, Sokbae - 2019

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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Estimating demand with multi-homing in two-sided markets

Affeldt, Pauline Luise; Argentesi, Elena; Filistrucchi, Lapo - 2021

We empirically investigate the relevance of multi-homing in two-sided markets. First, we build a micro-founded structural econometric model that encompasses demand for differentiated products and allows for multi-homing on both sides of the market. We then use an original dataset on the Italian...

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