Title: Replication Data for: Does the Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions

Type Dataset Gerber, Alan S., Karlan, Dean, Bergan, Daniel (2018): Replication Data for: Does the Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/67UGGG

Authors: Gerber, Alan S. (Yale University) ; Karlan, Dean (Northwestern University) ; Bergan, Daniel (Michigan State University) ; Gerber, Alan S. (Yale University) ; Karlan, Dean (Northwestern University) ; Bergan, Daniel (Michigan State University) ;

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Summary

We conducted a field experiment to measure the effect of exposure to newspapers on political behavior and opinion. Before the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election, we randomly assigned individuals to a Washington Post free subscription treatment, a Washington Times free subscription treatment, or a control treatment. We find no effect of either paper on political knowledge, stated opinions, or turnout in post-election survey and voter data. However, receiving either paper led to more support for the Democratic candidate, suggesting that media slant mattered less in this case than media exposure. Some evidence from voting records also suggests that receiving either paper led to increased 2006 voter turnout.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/67UGGG

Subjects

• Social Sciences
• CESSDA: Elections, Information society

Dates

• Publication date: 2018
• Submitted: July 09, 2018
• Updated: July 26, 2022
• Collected: 2005-11 to 2006-11

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Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

Format

electronic resource

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