Search Results - subject:"Media coverage"

Bad Science: Retractions and Media Coverage

Alabrese, Eleonora - 2022

Flawed research can be harmful both within and outside of academia. Even when published research has been retracted and refuted by the scientific community, it may continue to be a source of misinformation. The media can play an important role in drawing broader attention to research, but may...

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On the Economic Consequences of Mass Shootings

Brodeur, Abel; Yousaf, Hasin - 2022

shootings lead to decreases in productivity. Further, we find that greater national media coverage of shootings exacerbates …

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Measuring Social Benefits of Media Coverage : How Coverage of Climate Change Affects Behavior

Beattie, Graham - 2022

It has been well-documented that beliefs and actions can be affected by media coverage. In this paper, I investigate a …

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Vague News and Fake News

Swank, Lotte - 2022

This paper studies whether citizens are affected by media bias. I present a theoretical model in which citizens consult a report from the media and additionally can perform a costly investigation of this report. I show that citizens engage in such investigations if they expect that media bias...

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Media Coverage of Labor Issues and Artificial Intelligence Innovation

Li, Boshuo; Huang, Ni; Shi, Wei - 2022

of AI innovation—media coverage of labor issues. By disseminating negative news on firms’ labor-related misconducts to … further investigate boundary conditions, showing that the effect of media coverage of labor issues on AI innovation is …-intensive, in which media coverage of labor issues imposes stronger pressure on firms, and firms are thus more motivated to respond …

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Online News and Editorial Standards

Oliver, Atara - 2022

The internet enables the media to initially post and change articles at any time. I compare this situation to one in which news can only be released once. I determine the editorial standard, a cutoff for how confident a firm must be to post an article. If changing a story is costly, the firm's...

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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...

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No News is Bad News : Mortality Effects of Inland Oil Spills Vary with News Coverage

Chen, Muye - 2022

Exploiting county-level variation in exposure to severe inland oil spills and their news coverage status, I estimate that oil spills raise mortality rates via an elevation of ambient air pollution, and are concentrated in the most susceptible group: elderly adults. This effect is detectable only...

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Electoral Competition with Fake News

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2022

Misinformation pervades political competition. We introduce opportunities for political candidates and their media supporters to spread fake news about the policy environment and perhaps about parties' positions into a familiar model of electoral competition. In the baseline model with full...

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Does Fake News Create Echo Chambers?

Zhang, Jiding; Moon, Ken; Veeraraghavan, Senthil K. - 2022

Platforms have come under criticism from regulatory agencies, policymakers, and media scholars for the unfettered spread of fake news online. A key concern is that, as fake news becomes prevalent, individuals may fall into online "echo chambers" that predominantly expose them only to fake news....

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