The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting

By Stefano DellaVigna, E. Kaplan. 2007

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Subfields: Media Technology, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Persuasion: Empirical Evidence (2010, background): “DellaVigna & Kaplan (2007) exploit idiosyncratic variation in whether towns had Fox News added to their cable systems between 1996 and 2000.”
Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis (2011, background): “[14] DellaVigna Stefano and Ethan Kaplan, "The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122 (2007), 1187-1234.”
Newspaper Closures Polarize Voting Behavior (2018, background): “Voter opinions can be swayed by any expansion of media choice in the marketplace, even in elections uncovered by those new sources (Della Vigna & Kaplan, 2007; Gerber, Kaplan, & Bergen, NEWSPAPER CLOSURES 6 2009).”
A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior (2016, positive): “DellaVigna and Kaplan (2007) report important effects of Fox News on Republican vote shares.”
Habit Formation in Voting: Evidence from Rainy Elections (2016, methodology): “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”
Media Sentiment and IPO Underpricing (2017, positive): “DellaVigna and Kaplan (2007) show how Republican friendly news reporting by the Fox News channel has critically changed the electoral outcomes in several U.S. 1 Similarly to Liu et al. (2014a) we investigate whether media tones are associated with other IPO dimensions, finding only weak or…”
Social media news communities: gatekeeping, coverage, and statement bias (2013, background): “Bias can also aﬀect voting behavior, depending on the degree and direction of it, and on voters’ reliance on media [6, 10].”
Is newspaper coverage of economic events politically biased? (2014, positive): “…topic of how people learn from media coverage and shown that providing people with additional information will change their views (Lott 1990, 1999; Gerber et al. 2009; Leeson 2008; DellaVigna and Kaplan 2007; Chan and Stone 2013).8 7 See http://www.fair.org/reports/journalist-survey.html#state.”
Optimal Dynamic Allocation of Attention (2018, background): “Media outlets differ in their partisan biases.24 There is evidence that the consumption of biased news outlets affects the political leaning of voters and may change their voting decisions (see DellaVigna and Kaplan (2007) and Martin and Yurukoglu (2017) among others).”
Opinion Dynamics and Learning in Social Networks (2011, background): “More specific evidence that this type of influence on beliefs exists and can be important comes from DellaVigna and Kaplan [29], who provide an illustration of this by studying the expansion of the Fox News cable channel across US towns.”
Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland (2018, neutral): “[43] DellaVigna, Stefano, and Ethan Kaplan.”
Fake news and ideological polarization (2017, background): “DellaVigna S, Kaplan E (2006) The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting.”
Journalists and the Stock Market (2012, background): “For example, Table 1 indicates that Hillery authored 2413 AOTM articles from 1970 to 1984.”