Showing 1 - 10 of 23
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 … confirmed when we instrument both media signal and the incidence of attacks. For households with media access, we also find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351837
This paper investigates the effect of media coverage on immigration attitudes. It combines data on immigration coverage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469813
The implementation of evidence-based policies hinges on the dissemination of evidence to policymakers, a process influenced by the attributes of the sender. We conduct a country-wide RCT in which two ideologically opposite prominent think tanks, two major newspapers, and a research institution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567532
have free attention capacity. At the positive level, the impacts of ITprogress, international integration and media on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262645
biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277212
This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277215
-educational media content as a factor in the widening educational gender gap. Based on time-use data, we show that a possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451228
We address the question of whether media influences occupational choices. To theoretically examine media effects, we …. We show that sufficiently intensive positive media articles and reports about entrepreneurship increase the probability … to identify causal media effects using US micro data and a country-level macro panel with two different media variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744727
Reporters and editors may not have the same ideology. When an editor wants to employ a new reporter with a different ideology, they have to negotiate the price of moving from their own to the other's ideology. We focus on the job market for reporters, where the agents negotiate over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787002
Can counter-propaganda by a foreign democratic country help to overthrow an authoritarian military regime? And if so, what are the mechanisms through which this happens? We analyze these questions in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816516