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Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Drago, Francesco; Nannicini, Tommaso; Sobbrio, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper evaluates the effects of changes in the supply of news provided by newspapers on electoral participation … covering the presence of local news by different types of newspapers (i.e., local and national) for all cities above 15 …,000 inhabitants in the period 1993-2010. The identification strategy exploits discrete changes in the number of newspapers supplying …

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The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments

Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan; Kranich, Laurence - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper we present a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual selfesteem and relative esteem for others are endogenously determined. Individuals differ in their productivities, and their behaviour and political views are influenced by moral standards concerning work....

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Media Exposure and Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia

Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential … introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal reception due to topography to estimate the …

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How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant

Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

have independent raters separately code front-page election stories and headlines. Third, we tabulate the number of … electoral endorsements that newspapers give to each side of politics in federal elections. Overall, we find that the Australian …

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Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

parliamentary election is investigated, using cross-provincial data, and controlling for other social, political and economic …

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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear...

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Minorities, Social Capital and Voting

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

It is widely held that voter turnout among immigrants and ethnic minorities is lower than among the native born. The goal of our paper is to explore the determinants of voting, comparing immigrant, minority and majority citizens in Canada. We use the 2002 wave of the Equality Security Community...

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Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands

Kranenburg, Hans L. van; Palm, Franz C.; Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

market for daily newspapers in The Netherlands from 1950 to 1996. We present a brief overview of the exit literature. On the … models. We find that exit hazards of daily newspapers depend on the circulation size, ownership, and number of incumbents …

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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...

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