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Terrorism, media coverage and education : evidence from Al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya
Alfano, Marco; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022
We examine how terrorism alters the demand for education through perceived risks and returns by relating terrorist … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198943
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Mediated terrorism : US news and al-Qaeda attacks
Jetter, Michael - 2017
This paper presents an empirical test for the hypothesis that US news coverage of al-Qaeda causes al-Qaeda attacks. To isolate causality, disaster deaths worldwide provide an instrumental variable crowding out al-Qaeda coverage. Studying daily al-Qaeda coverage by CNN, NBC, CBS, and Fox News, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780448
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Terrorism, Media Coverage and Education: Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya
Alfano, Marco; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022
We examine how terrorism alters the demand for education through perceived risks and returns by relating terrorist … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351837
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306344
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Attack When the World Is Not Watching? U.S. News and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Durante, Ruben; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - 2020
Politicians may strategically time unpopular measures to coincide with newsworthy events that distract the media and the public. We test this hypothesis in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We find that Israeli attacks are more likely to occur when U.S. news on the following day...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137923
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Can news draw blood? : the impact of media coverage on the number and severity of terror attacks
Beckmann, Klaus; Dewenter, Ralf; Thomas, Tobias - 2016
Using a new data set that captures the share of reporting on terrorism, we explore the nexus between terrorist attacks … and the news. It turns out that terrorism mainly influences news reports through the number of incidents. Regarding the … reverse causality, we provide evidence that the share of the news devoted to terrorism Granger-causes further terrorist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488440
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Can news draw blood? : the impact of media coverage on the number and severity of terror attacks
Beckmann, Klaus; Dewenter, Ralf; Thomas, Tobias - 2016
Using a new data set that captures the share of reporting on terrorism, we explore the nexus between terrorist attacks … and the news. It turns out that terrorism mainly influences news reports through the number of incidents. Regarding the … reverse causality, we provide evidence that the share of the news devoted to terrorism Granger-causes further terrorist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559948
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Terrorism and the media : the effect of US television coverage on Al-Qaeda attacks
Jetter, Michael - 2017
Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality, I use disaster deaths worldwide as an exogenous variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641575
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Terrorism and the Media : The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks
Jetter, Michael - 2017
Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality, I use disaster deaths worldwide as an exogenous variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957500
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Can News Draw Blood? The Impact of Media Coverage on the Number and Severity of Terror Attacks
Beckmann, Klaus B. - 2016
Using a new data set that captures the share of reporting on terrorism, we explore the nexus between terrorist attacks … and the news. It turns out that terrorism mainly influences news reports through the number of incidents. Regarding the … reverse causality, we provide evidence that the share of the news devoted to terrorism Granger-causes further terrorist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991552