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E-lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet

Falck, Oliver, Gold, Robert, Heblich, Stephan·2014·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/aer.104.7.2238
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This paper analyzes the effects on voting behavior of information disseminated over the Internet. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hindered the roll-out of fixed-line infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find negative effects of Internet availability on voter turnout, which we relate to a crowding-out of TV consumption and increased entertainment consumption. We find no evidence that the Internet systematically benefits specific parties, suggesting ideological self-segregation in online information consumption. Robustness tests, including placebo estimations from the pre-Internet period, support a causal interpretation of our results. (JEL D12, D72, L82, L86)

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  • Television and Voter Turnout*

    Gentzkow, M. (2006) · Quarterly Journal of Economics · doi:10.1162/qjec.121.3.931 · Cited by 842 · cited 5×

    “…supporting a certain political ideology (cf. DellaVigna and Kaplan 2007; Durante and Knight, 2011) or the media might concentrate on political issues of general interest and crowd out local topics since the media serve increasingly integrated markets (Snyder and Strömberg, 2010; Gentzkow, 2006).”
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    Gentzkow, M., Shapiro, J. M., & Sinkinson, M. (2011) · American Economic Review · doi:10.1257/aer.101.7.2980 · Cited by 497 · cited 1×

    “Gentzkow et al. (2011) analyze the effect of increased newspaper coverage in a panel of all U.S. newspapers published in English language that existed between 1869 and 2004.”
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  • Employment, Wages, and Voter Turnout

    Charles, K. K., & Stephens, M. (2013) · American Economic Journal: Applied Economics · doi:10.1257/app.5.4.111 · Cited by 93

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Authors
Falck, O., Gold, R., & Heblich, S.
Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2014-07-01
Volume
104
Issue
7
Pages
2238-2265
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/aer.104.7.2238
OpenAlex
W1912888988
Cited by
312
References
3
FWCI
119.62
Type
journal article
Language
en
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