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Coming out in America : AIDS, politics, and cultural change
Fernández, Raquel; Parsa, Sahar; Viarengo, Martina - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006558
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Coming out in America : aids, politics, and cultural change
Fernández, Raquel; Parsa, Sahar; Viarengo, Martina - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166083
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Coming Out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change
Fernández, Raquel; Parsa, Sahar; Viarengo, Martina - 2019
hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic was a shock that changed the incentive to "come out" and that the ensuing process of … our hypothesis, the change in opinion was greater in states with higher AIDS rates. Our analysis suggests that if … individuals in low-AIDS states had experienced the same average AIDS rate as a high-AIDS state, the change in their approval rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059090
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Political awareness, microtargeting of voters, and negative electoral campaigning
Shipper, Burkhard C.; Hee Yeul Woo - 2014
In modern elections, ideologically motivated candidates with a wealth of information about individual voters and sophisticated campaign strategies are faced by voters who lack awareness of some political issues and are uncertain about the exact political positions of candidates. We study to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255046
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Coming Out in America : Aids, Politics, and Cultural Change
Fernández, Raquel - 2019
hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic was a shock that changed the incentive to "come out" and that the ensuing process of … our hypothesis, the change in opinion was greater in states with higher AIDS rates. Our analysis suggests that if … individuals in low-AIDS states had experienced the same average AIDS rate as a high-AIDS state, the change in their approval rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868827
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How partisan is the press? : multiple measures of media slant
Gans, Joshua; Leigh, Andrew - 2011
We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to federal parliamentarians. First, we use parliamentary mentions to code over 100 public intellectuals on a left-right scale. We then estimate slant by using the number of mentions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522516
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How partisan is the press? : multiple measures of media slant
Gans, Joshua; Leigh, Andrew - In: The economic record : er 88 (2012), pp. 127-147
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009564465
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Can social pressure stifle free speech?
Morales, Juan S.; Samahita, Margaret - 2023
This paper studies public opinion in the context of strong social norms that can induce conformity and self-censorship. We present a model that highlights how social pressure can affect the public expression of opinion either through a change in publicly stated views (conformity) or by inducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014328618
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Second-generation immigrants and native attitudes toward immigrants in Europe
Barrera, Oscar; Bensidoun, Isabelle; Edo, Anthony - 2022
This paper investigates the role played by immigrants and their children in shaping native attitudes toward immigrants in the European Union. By exploiting the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on immigrant integration, we show that countries with a relatively high share of immigrants are more likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013272268
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Public opinion, racial bias, and labor market outcomes
Majlesi, Kaveh; Prina, Silvia; Sullivan, Paul - 2022
The effect of negative shifts in public opinion on the economic lives of minorities is unknown. We study the role of racial bias in the U.S. labor market by investigating sudden changes in public opinion about Asians following the anti-Chinese rhetoric that emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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