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Media Bias and Climate Change Skepticism
(2023)Center for Law & Economics Working Paper SeriesThis study examines the impact on climate change attitudes of exposure to Fox News Channel (FNC), the top-rated U.S. cable television channel known for its conservative bias. Our findings indicate a statistically significant shift towards climate change skepticism and a decline in support for climate change mitigation policies. The findings remain robust across multiple empirical methodologies, including addressing the endogeneity of ...Working Paper -
Seeing and Hearing is Believing: The Role of Audiovisual Communication in Shaping Inflation Expectations
(2024)Center for Law & Economics Working Paper SeriesThis paper presents novel causal evidence on the relationship between various communication channels employed by central banks and households’ expectations about future inflation. In a pre registered randomized survey experiment administered in 2022, we examine adjustment of inflation expectations when confronted with a press conference statement by the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) articulating the bank’s commitment to a ...Working Paper -
Economic Interests, Worldviews and Identities: Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics
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Better to be Jeered than Ignored? Gender and Reactions during Parliamentary Debates
(2023)Center for Law & Economics Working Paper SeriesAre non-verbal reactions during parliamentary debate gendered? Do male and female Members of Parliament (MPs) experience applause or jeering differently? In short, yes, and the gendered nature of a speech matters. Using an original corpus of over 544,000 speeches given in German state parliaments, we first estimate the gendered nature of par- liamentary speeches, then examine how reactions to speeches given by male and female MPs differ. ...Working Paper -
Media Slant is Contagious
(2020)Center for Law & Economics Working Paper SeriesThis paper examines the diffusion of media slant, specifically how partisan content from national cable news affects local newspapers in the U.S., 2005-2008. We use a text-based measure of cable news slant trained on content from Fox News Channel (FNC), CNN, and MSNBC to analyze how local newspapers adopt FNC’s slant over CNN/MSNBC’s. Our findings show that local news becomes more similar to FNC content in response to an exogenous increase ...Working Paper -
Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice
(2019)Center for Law & Economics Working Paper SeriesThis paper provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of the early law-and- economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Institute for Federal Judges, an intensive economics course that trained almost half of federal judges between 1976 and 1999. Using the universe of published opinions in U.S. Circuit Courts and 1 million District Court criminal sentencing decisions, we estimate the within-judge ...Working Paper -
What Drives Partisan Tax Policy? The Effective Tax Code
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Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Exposure to Fox News Channel
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Measuring Judicial Sentiment: Methods and Application to U.S. Circuit Courts
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More Laws, More Growth? Evidence from U.S. States
(2020)Center for Law & Economics Working Paper SeriesWorking Paper