Policy Seminars
| Speaker: Matt Gentzkow |
| University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
Topic: The Effect of Newspaper Exits on Political Participation: A Regression Discontinuity Approach |
| Date/Place/Time: Friday, May 1, 2009 at 1:30PM-3:00PM UCLA Anderson Entrepreneurs Hall C303 |
| Abstract: We estimate the on-impact effect of newspaper exits on voter turnout in presidential elections, using a new dataset covering all U.S. daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004. Our identification strategy exploits the fine timing of newspaper exits, and assumes that confounding trends are smooth. The exit of a daily newspaper reduces turnout in the next presidential election by 0.6 percentage points, or 8.6 voters for every 100 newspaper copies that do not circulate. |
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