ArticleJournal of population economics2021
The safest time to fly: pandemic response in the era of Fox News.
Article in Journal of population economics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The health costs of losing political representation: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Elections.PloS one · 2025Article
- Trusted information sources in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic predict vaccination uptake over one year later.Vaccine · 2023Article
- Cable news and COVID-19 vaccine uptake.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Conservative Media Use and COVID-19 Related Behavior: The Moderating Role of Media Literacy Variables.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The safest time to fly: pandemic response in the era of Fox News.Journal of population economics · 2021Article
- Coronagraben in Switzerland: culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19.Journal of population economics · 2021Article
- The influence of extreme events such as Brexit and Covid-19 on equity markets.Journal of policy modelingArticle
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Abstract
We document a causal effect of the conservative Fox News Channel in the USA on physical distancing during COVID-19 pandemic. We measure county-level mobility covering all US states and District of Columbia produced by GPS pings to 15-17 million smartphones and zip-code-level mobility using Facebook location data. Using the historical position of Fox News Channel in the cable lineup as the source of exogenous variation, we show that increased exposure to Fox News led to a smaller reduction in distance traveled and a smaller increase in the probability of staying home after the national emergency declaration in the USA. Our results show that slanted media can have a harmful effect on containment efforts during a pandemic by affecting people's behavior.
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