应用经济学报告系列 (05-01)
报告题目：The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voter Behavior
报告人： Ethan Kaplan, UC Berkeley
报告时间：3月30日周三2:00-3:30pm
报告地点：光华楼201室
Abstract:
Does the media affect voting? We address this question by looking at the Fox News effect. Between October 1996 and November 2000, the conservative news channel was introduced in the cable programming of 20 percent of US towns. We investigate if Republicans gained vote share in towns where Fox News was broadcast. We find no significant effect of the introduction of Fox News on the vote share in Presidential elections between 1996 and 2000. We can rule out an effect of Fox News larger than 0.5 percentage points. We also find no significant effect of Fox News on voter turnout. Our results imply that Fox News convinced at most 2 percent of its viewers to vote Republican. This evidence suggests that voters are sophisticated and filter out media bias. Alternatively, voters select into the different media, so most Fox News viewers would already vote Republican.
Speaker:
Ethan Kaplan is currently finishing his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in Economics. His research focuses on political economy and international finance. He will be starting as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm University as of next fall.
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