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Terrorism, Media Coverage and Education: Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya

Alfano, Marco; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022

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 …

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Media Coverage of Immigration and the Polarization of Attitudes

Schneider-Strawczynski, Sarah; Valette, Jérôme - 2023

This paper investigates the effect of media coverage on immigration attitudes. It combines data on immigration coverage …

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Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion

Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016

-educational media content as a factor in the widening educational gender gap. Based on time-use data, we show that a possible …

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War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance during World War II

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano; … - 2017

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...

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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...

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The Political Economy of Propaganda: Evidence from US Newspapers

Ottinger, Sebastian; Winkler, Max - 2022

We study the impact of the first American party committed to redistribution from rich to poor on anti-Black media …

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Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? On the Questionable Association Between 16 and Pregnant and Teenage Childbearing

Jaeger, David A.; Joyce, Theodore J.; Kaestner, Robert - 2016

social media and show that it is fragile and highly sensitive to the choice of included periods and to the use of weights. We …

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Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? A Response to Jaeger, Joyce, and Kaestner (2016)

Kearney, Melissa S.; Levine, Phillip B. - 2016

) of our 2015 paper "Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of MTV's 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing." In …

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Ideological Alignment and Evidence-Based Policy Adoption

Garcia-Hombrados, Jorge; Jansen, Marcel; Martínez, Ángel - 2024

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...

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Shadow Economies around the World : What Do We Know?

Schneider, Friedrich G.; Klinglmair, Robert - 2004

Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 1999-2000 in developing countries is 41%, in transition countries 38% and...

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