The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics

By Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro, Michael Sinkinson. 2011

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Social Media and Corruption (2018, result): “6 Our precise-timing approach is similar to that of Gentzkow, Shapiro, and Sinkinson (2011), who studied the impact of newspaper entries and exits on electoral politics.”
Media and Politics (2015, background): “Similarly, Gentzkow et al (2011) rule out even moderate effects of entry and exit of partisan newspapers on party vote shares in the United States from 1869 to 2004.”
Do Newspapers Matter? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence From the Closure of The Cincinnati Post (2013, unknown): “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.”
Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimators with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects (2018, unknown): “Estimators are computed using the data of Gentzkow et al. (2011), with state-year fixed effects as controls.”
Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit (2014, background): “Oberholzer-Gee and Waldfogel (2010) analyze the effect of the 36Here, we are implicitly assuming that voters and non-voters are equally likely to read the newspapers as in Gentzkow et al. (2011).”
Two-Way Fixed Effects and Differences-in-Differences with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: A Survey (2021, methodology): “…the Stata command is: did multiplegt outcome groupid timeid treatment de Chaisemartin and D’Haultfœuille (2020) compute the DID M estimator in the Gentzkow et al. (2011) example mentioned above, that studies the eﬀect of newspapers on turnout in US presidential elections. de Chaisemartin and…”
Fuzzy Differences-in-Differences (2015, background): “While in some applications these three sets of groups are known to the analyst (see e.g. Gentzkow et al., 2011), in other applications they must be estimated (see our application in Section 5).”
Pre-Event Trends in the Panel Event-Study Design (2019, methodology): “…4 presents applications of our proposed approach to the effect of SNAP on household spending (Hastings and Shapiro 2018), the effect of newspaper entry on voter turnout (Gentzkow et al. 2011), and the effect of the minimum wage on youth employment (Neumark et al. 2014; Allegretto et al. 2017).”
Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2020, methodology): “Quarterly Journal of Economics 126(4), 1799– 1839. Gentzkow, M., J. M. Shapiro, and M. Sinkinson (2011). “The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics”. American Economic Review 101, 2980–3018. Gentzkow, M., J. M. Shapiro, and D. F. Stone (2015). “Media Bias in the Marketplace: Theor”
Financing dies in darkness? The impact of newspaper closures on public finance (2020, methodology): “Following Gentzkow et al. (2011) , we match newspapers to counties based on the cities in which they are located.”
Tall claims?: Sense and nonsense about the importance of height of US presidents (2013, background): “Gentzkow et al. (2009) also showed that the effect of newspapers diminished with the introduction of radio and television, suggesting that these alternative sources of information began to have a relatively greater impact, particularly television which allowed voters to assess the candidate's physic”
Employment, Wages, and Voter Turnout (2013, unknown): “…(Ashenfelter and Kelly 1975); campaign spending (Ansolabehere et al. 1994); and the media (Gentzkow 2005; Lassen 2005; Dellavigna and Kaplan 2007; Gentzkow, Shapiro, and Sinkinson 2011; and Stromberg 2004) 2See Arcelus and Meltzer (1975), Wolfinger and Rosenstone (1980), Rosenstone (1982),…”
Habit Formation in Voting: Evidence from Rainy Elections (2016, background): “Several papers study the impacts of media exposure (Stromberg 2004; Gentzkow 2006; DellaVigna and Kaplan 2007; Enikolopov et al. 2011; Gentzkow et al. 2011; Drago et al. 2014; Falck et al. 2014), but they exploit persistent variation in media exposure and hence are not able to address the impacts of”
Homophily, Group Size, and the Diffusion of Political Information in Social Networks: Evidence from Twitter (2016, unknown): “Gentzkow et al. (2011) show that the entry of partisan newspapers in the United States increased voter turnout but had no impact on vote shares, and Strömberg (2004b) found that radio increased voter turnout and the federal government spent more during the Great Depression in areas with a higher…”