We study the dynamic link between economic news coverage and the macroeconomy. We construct two measures of media … coverage of bad and good unemployment figures based on three major US newspapers. Using nonlinear time series techniques, we … document three facts: (i) there is no significant negativity bias in economic news coverage. Newspapers' asymmetric …

coverage probability that maintains at the nominal confidence level of 0.95 and the shortest average length of the confidence … perform very well in terms of both the empirical coverage probability and the average length of the confidence interval. The …

based on newspaper coverage. We use the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model and its applied tools of impulse response and …

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

. National and regional data on health insurance coverage needed for policy making is mostly obtained from household surveys … therefore provides more precise estimates. In this study we estimate the health insurance coverage for Kenyan counties using a … national direct health insurance coverage estimates are 18%and 21%for women and men respectively. With the current health …

"crowd out" private insurance coverage. To estimate the extent of such crowd out, I use a difference-in-difference empirical … approach, examining changes in health insurance coverage among low-income Americans in states that expanded eligibility …, consisting of a 10.7 percentage point relative increase in Medicaid coverage among low income adults and a 4.6 percentage point …

those without any employer-sponsored coverage at all. Among those no longer working full-time, 77 percent transitioned to …