News Droughts, News Floods, and U. S. Disaster Relief

By Thomas Eisensee, David Strömberg. 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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How Lasting is Voter Gratitude? An Analysis of the Short- and Long-Term Electoral Returns to Beneficial Policy (2011, unknown): “Elite behavior and the incumbent government’s success in persuasively communicating the beneficial consequences of their policy response via the media play a role (Besley and Burgess 2002; Eisensee and Stroemberg 2007).”
Determinants of International Emergency Aid - Humanitarian Need Only? (2009, background): “Closely related to this paper is also recent work by Eisensee and Strömberg (2007) on US disaster relief payments.”
Destruction and Distress: Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effects of the September 11 Attacks on Mental Well-Being in the United Kingdom (2011, background): “This is because of the fact that dread makes up a significant part of the risks from terrorism (Viscusi, 2009) and this especially true given that recent media coverage has been dominated by the 9 ⁄ 11 attacks (Eisensee and Strömberg, 2007).”
Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit (2014, background): “…outcomes such as incumbency advantage (Ansolabehere, Snowberg, and Snyder, 2006; Prior, 2006; Ferraz and Finan, 2008; Snyder and Strömberg, 2010; Fergusson, 2012) and government spending (Besley and Burgess, 2002; Strömberg, 2004; Snyder and Strömberg, 2010; Eisensee and Strömberg, 2007).”
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster (2013, background): “At present, large-scale postdisaster management is almost entirely an ad hoc process that is strongly influenced by political concerns and the media (Besley and Burgess (2002); Garrett and Sobel (2003); Eisensee and Strömberg (2007); Yang (2008); Kunreuther et al. (2009); United Nations (2009)).”
Multinationals' response to major disasters: how does subsidiary investment vary in response to the type of disaster and the quality of country governance? (2011, methodology): “We operationalized the severities of the disasters (i.e., natural disasters, technological disasters, and terrorist attacks) using the number of people killed because it is a common measure in research on disasters (Eisensee and Strömberg, 2007; Strömberg, 2007; Van der Vink et al., 2007).”
Media and Politics (2015, background): “In an attempt to address this problem, Eisensee and Strömberg (2007) analyze the effect of issues being covered because there is not much other news around.”
Being The New York Times: the Political Behaviour of a Newspaper (2011, unknown): “Eisensee and Strömberg (2007) show that disaster relief funds provided by the U.”
Making Progress on Foreign Aid (2015, unknown): “outcomes of interest. This section provides a brief discussion on the mechanisms, aid forms and outcomes that appear most frequently in the empirical literature discussed in Section 5. First, consider aggregate outcomes such as growth. In principle, foreign aid can lead to positive or negative econo”
The Right Price of Food: Reflections on the Political Economy of Policy Analysis and Communication (2011, unknown): “Eisensee and Stromberg (2007) argue that disaster relief decisions and aid allocations are driven by media coverage of disasters but that other newsworthy events may crowd out this news coverage.”