The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic
By Andrey Simonov, Szymon Sacher, Jean-Pierre Dubé, Shirsho Biswas. Social Science Research Network, 2020
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We test for and measure the effects of cable news in the US on regional differences in compliance with recommendations by health experts to practice social dis
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Modeling and Simulation, Sociology and Political Science
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- Polarization and public health: Partisan differences in social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic (2020, unknown): “Ash et al. (2020), Bursztyn et al. (2020) and Simonov et al. (2020) find that people social distance less if quasi-randomly exposed to news sources that argue that COVID-19 is less risky, suggesting that media exposure is one possible driver for our results.2 Our work contributes to a broader…”
- A literature review of the economics of COVID‐19 (2020, unknown): “Simonov et al. (2020) analyze the causal effect of cable news viewership on social distancing compliance.”
- Misinformation During a Pandemic (2020, unknown): “Recent studies (Simonov et al., 2020; Ash et al., 2020; Ananyev et al., 2020) use the channel numbers instrument developed by Martin and Yurukoglu (2017) to establish a causal effect of exposure to Fox News on mobility.”
- Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, result): “We find no general pattern in the results that suggests that the broad partisan differences in behaviors, attitudes, or preferences are larger among those who consume right-wing news (see S27-S30 Tables and S9-S12 Figs in S1 File), a result that differs with recent behavioral studies on the effect o”