Persuading the Enemy: Estimating the Persuasive Effects of Partisan Media with the Preference-Incorporating Choice and Assignment Design
Does media choice cause polarization, or merely reflect it?
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Design, Identification, and Sensitivity Analysis for Patient Preference Trials
Social and medical scientists are often concerned that the external validity of experimental results may be compromised because of heterogeneous treatment effects.
Digital Pay-Meter Playbook: How Today’s News Publishers Can Use Data, Best Practices, and Test-and-Learn Tactics To Build Better Pay-Meters
The past half-decade has seen a digital subscription renaissance in the news publishing industry.
Polarization and Media Usage: Disentangling Causality
This chapter examines the literature concerning media choice and partisan polarization.
vMOBilize: Gamifying Civic Learning and Political Engagement in a Classroom Context
This study presents the results of a quasi-experiment (N?=?254) conducted over the course of ten weeks in Spring 2016 to assess the effectiveness of a game platform designed to facilitate political en
Our Digital Lives Don’t Need to Make Us Unhappy, Unhealthy, and Unwise
Fifty five years ago this month, America reached a hazardous milestone: “peak tobacco.” Men and women that year smoked more cigarettes than ever before recorded—523 billion of them.
Fake News on Twitter During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
There was a proliferation of fake news during the 2016 election cycle. Grinberg et al.
Alan Brinkley: A Life in History
Few American historians of his generation have had as much influence in both the academic and popular realms as Alan Brinkley.
Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy
Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an “enemy of the American people.” Attacks on the media had been a hallmark of Trump’s presidential cam
Does Rape Culture Predict Rape? Evidence from U.S. Newspapers, 2000–2013
We offer the first quantitative analysis of rape culture in the United States.
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