Working Paper

The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Andrey Simonov

Columbia University

Jean-Pierre Dube

University of Chicago

Szymon Sacher

Columbia University

Shirsho Biswas

University of Chicago

Oct 7, 2020

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Analyzes the impact of preferences for cable TV viewing on consumer behavior (staying at home as a form of social distancing). The random factor of where a specific cable channel appears in the available range across geographies is used as an instrument in the causal model to estimate the incremental effect of viewership on behavior.

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