The Tuesday advantage of candidates endorsed by American newspapers

Leite Lopez de Leon, Fernanda (2013) The Tuesday advantage of candidates endorsed by American newspapers. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 13 (2). 865–886. ISSN 1935-1682

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Abstract

This article documents the electoral advantage of candidates who have a newspaper endorsement published on Election Day compared to other endorsed candidates. I provide evidence that this advantage is not driven by a selection effect, suggesting that it is instead explained by readers deciding how to vote based on endorsements read on Election Day. Moreover, candidates who have a different political orientation from their endorsing newspapers benefit more from this endorsement than other candidates. These results are based on a newly-compiled dataset matching county-level data of 826 endorsed candidates’ election results with newspaper and county characteristics.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
Depositing User:	Julie Frith
Date Deposited:	30 Apr 2013 11:57
Last Modified:	23 Apr 2024 13:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/42306
DOI:	10.1515/bejeap-2012-0043

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