Television and Voter Turnout

By Matthew Gentzkow. 2006

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Persuasion: Empirical Evidence (2010, positive): “This may be driven by both irrational confirmatory bias (Lord et al.1979) and rational inferences about quality by consumers with heterogeneous priors (Gentzkow & Shapiro 2006).”
The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting (2007, methodology): “Expression (7) is easily interpretable.”
Political Advertising and Election Results (2018, methodology): “In the U.S. context, Gentzkow (2006) shows that the introduction of television itself reduced voter turnout in congressional elections by about 2 percentage points per decade (f = 4.4), while Gentzkow et al. (2011) find that, historically, availability of at least one newspaper per county increased…”
Bias in Cable News: Persuasion and Polarization (2017, background): “Amongst others, Chiang and Knight (2011) find positive effects of unexpected newspaper endorsements on vote shares for the endorsed candidate, Gentzkow (2006) finds decreased voter turnout from television access, Gerber et al. (2009) find positive effects of newspaper exposure, regardless of slant, ”
News Droughts, News Floods, and U. S. Disaster Relief (2007, background): “Media penetration has been found to influence redistributive spending [Strömberg 1999, 2004], government accountability [Besley and Burgess 2002], voter turnout [Gentzkow 2006 and Strömberg 1999, 2004], and voting patterns [Della Vigna and Kaplan 2005].”
Economic and Social Impacts of the Media (2015, positive): “A relevant case for educational outcomes is the identification strategy used by Gentzkow (2006), which exploits the fact that television licenses were granted in waves with interruptions in the licensing process.”
Do Newspapers Matter? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence From the Closure of The Cincinnati Post (2013, positive): “Gentzkow, Shapiro, and Sinkinson (2011) analyzed historical data from 1869 to 2004, with a particular focus on the 1869–1928 period, and showed that the presence of a local daily newspaper raised presidential and congressional election turnout. Trounstine (2009) found that incumbent advantage in cit”
Press Coverage and Political Accountability (2010, positive): “Gentzkow (2006) estimates that the increasing use of television in 1950–70 reduced House turnout in the non-South by 5.6 percent in off-year elections and 3.1 percent in presidential elections.”
Electoral rules and voter turnout (2011, neutral): “As only two candidates run 4 Other papers that make use of quasi-randomized empirical strategies, are: Gerber et al. (2000), Gentzkow (2006), Hastings et al. (2007); and Funk (forthcoming).”
The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics (2011, background): “Across counties, per-capita manufacturing output (our proxy for income) is significantly and positively correlated with the number of newspapers, and entries and exits of newspapers are associated with corresponding trends in output.”