, circulation, and content of Republican and Democratic daily newspapers. We exploit changes over time in party control of the …

We use new data on entries and exits of US daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004 to estimate effects on political … events and allows for the possibility of confounding trends. We find that newspapers have a robust positive effect on … political participation, with one additional newspaper increasing both presidential and congressional turnout by approximately 0 …

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 …

limited to the first newspaper entering the market. -- newspapers ; media competition ; turnout ; political selection …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 …

This paper reports the results of a natural field experiment to measure the effect of exposure to newspapers on … political behavior and opinion. The Washington DC area is served by two major newspapers, the Washington Times and the … gubernatorial election. We find that those assigned to the Post treatment group were eight percentage points more likely to vote for …

themes and assign a sentiment to each of these. Our narrative dataset covers 107,428 newspaper articles from 70 German … newspapers over the 2000 to 2019 period. Using 16 human coders to evaluate our method, we find that it clearly outperforms simple …

Can television have a mitigating effect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals … in some areas of East Germany - due to their geographic location - could not receive West German television until 1989 …. We conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus …

right before the presidential election, with those that received it afterwards. I find that internet access reduced …

. Negative campaigning also intensified, with a 5.5 percentage point rise in the share of attack ads. Survey and election data …