Working Papers

 

What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers (with Jesse M. Shapiro)
Last updated: May 24, 2007


Published Papers

 

Competition and Truth in the Market for News
(with Jesse M. Shapiro)

Journal of Economic Perspectives. Spring, 2008.
Copyright 2008, American Economic Association.

Preschool Television Viewing and Adolescent Test Scores
Historical Evidence from the Coleman Study (with Jesse M. Shapiro)

Quarterly Journal of Economics. CXXIII (1). February 2008.
Copyright 2008, MIT Press.
Web Appendix

Valuing New Goods in a Model with Complementarities: Online Newspapers
American Economic Review. 97 (3). June 2007.
Copyright 2007, the American Economic Association.

Television and Voter Turnout
Quarterly Journal of Economics. CXXI (3). August 2006.
Copyright 2006, MIT Press.

Media Bias and Reputation (with Jesse M. Shapiro)
Journal of Political Economy. 114(2). April, 2006.
Copyright 2006, University of Chicago Press.
Web Appendix

Media, Education, and Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World (with Jesse M. Shapiro)
Journal of Economic Perspectives. Summer, 2004.
Copyright 2004, American Economic Association.

Book Chapters

 

Market Forces and News Media in Muslim Countries (with Jesse M. Shapiro)
In Information and Public Choice: From Media Markets to Policy Making. R. Islam, Ed. World Bank, 2008.

The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why it Mattered (with Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin)
In Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History. Glaeser and Goldin, Eds. NBER, 2006.