IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13834

Juan P. Aparicio, Michael Jetter

published as 'Captivating news: Media attention and FARC kidnappings' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 69-81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13805

National or Local? The Demand for News in Italy during COVID-19

Stefano Castriota, Marco Delmastro, Mirco Tonin

published as 'National or local infodemic? The demand for news in Italy during COVID-19' in: International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2023, 23, 507–536

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12225

Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives

Patrick Button

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 315-339.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12056

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Effect of Crime News Coverage on Crime Perception and Trust

Daniel Velásquez, Santiago Medina, Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Miguel Núñez, Hugo Alatrista, Juandiego Morzan

published in: World Development, 2020, 136, 105111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11945

Special Interest Groups versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention

Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer

published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (662), 2290 - 2320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11900

The Effect of Media Coverage on Mass Shootings

Michael Jetter, Jay K. Walker

final version published as 'News coverage and mass shootings in the US' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 148, 104221

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11491

News Media and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Nicola Mastrorocco, Luigi Minale

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 230-255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11244

War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance during World War II

Stefano Gagliarducci, Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato, Francesco Sobbrio, Guido Tabellini

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (4), 1–38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10708

Terrorism and the Media: The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks

Michael Jetter

published as 'The inadvertent consequences of al-Qaeda news coverage' in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 391-410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10318

Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? A Response to Jaeger, Joyce, and Kaestner (2016)

Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip B. Levine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10317

Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? On the Questionable Association Between 16 and Pregnant and Teenage Childbearing

David A. Jaeger, Theodore J. Joyce, Robert Kaestner

substantially revised version published as 'A Cautionary Tale of Evaluating Identifying Assumptions: Did Reality TV Really Cause a Decline in Teenage Childbearing?' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (2), 317 - 326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9991

Internet and Voting in the Web 2.0 Era: Evidence from a Local Broadband Policy

Samuele Poy, Simone Schüller

revised version published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (1), 103861

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9645

Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion

Øystein Hernaes, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (2), 371-400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8497

Terrorism and the Media

Michael Jetter

updated version published as 'Journal of Policy Analysis and Management' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 153, 32-48