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The Rise of the Fourth Estate : How Newspapers Became Informative and Why it Mattered

Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Glaeser, Edward L.; Goldin, Claudia - 2021

nineteenth century U.S. newspapers were often public relations tools funded by politicians, and newspaper independence was a … rarity. The newspaper industry underwent fundamental changes between 1870 and 1920 as the press became more informative and … informative press was the result of increased scale and competitiveness in the newspaper industry caused by technological progress …

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Revealing Malfeasance : How Local Media Facilitates Electoral Sanctioning of Mayors in Mexico

Larreguy Arbesu, Horacio - 2014

We estimate the effect of local media outlets on political accountability in Mexico, focusing on malfeasance by municipal mayors. We study federal grants earmarked for infrastructure projects targeting the poor, and leverage two sources of plausibly exogenous variation. First, we exploit...

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Horizontal and Vertical Conflict : Experimental Evidence

Galiani, Sebastián - 2016

Two types of political conflicts of interest pervade many of the world's societies. A horizontal conflict of interest …

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Media Sentiment and International Asset Prices

Fraiberger, Samuel P. - 2018

(future) daily returns around the world. However, we find a sharp contrast between the effect of local news and that of global …

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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900

Iyigun, Murat; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - 2021

We investigate the long-run effects of cooling on conflict. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which we merge with historical temperature data. We show that cooling is associated with increased conflict....

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The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars

Caselli, Francesco - 2013

We establish a theoretical as well as empirical framework to assess the role of resource endowments and their geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when at least one country has natural resources; when the...

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War and Relatedness

Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and develop more disputes over sets of common issues. We...

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