bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias - i.e., bias in the … disentangle coverage bias from unobserved heterogeneity between observations. We apply our procedure to Wikipedia and examine … whether it has a coverage bias in its biographies of German (and French) Members of Parliament (MPs). Our analysis reveals a …

bias. The economic sentiment of the media, consumers and firms does not reflect the actual situation. Finally, we find that …

bias. The economic sentiment of the media, consumers and firms does not reflect the actual situation. Finally, we find that …

rise in media bias affects the election outcome in a non-monotonic way, and reduces voter welfare by decreasing the …