Data and Code for: Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Andrea Prat, Columbia University
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Project Citation:
Angelucci, Charles, and Prat, Andrea. Data and Code for: Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-03-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E195601V1
Project Description
Summary:
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To investigate general patterns in news information in the U.S., we combine a protocol for identifying major political news stories, 11 monthly surveys with 15,000 participants, and a model of news discernment. When confronted with a true and a fake news story, 47% of subjects confidently choose the true story, 3% confidently choose the fake story, and the remaining half are uncertain. Socioeconomic differences are associated with large variations in the probability of selecting the true news story. Partisan congruence between an individual and a news story matters too, but its impact is up to an order of magnitude smaller.
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
D90 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General
L82 Entertainment; Media
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
D90 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General
L82 Entertainment; Media
Geographic Coverage:
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United States
Time Period(s):
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6/2019 – 3/2022 (This paper exploits data gathered from 11 online monthly surveys. The fi rst survey took place in June, 2019 and the last survey in March, 2022.)
Collection Date(s):
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6/2019 – 3/2022 (This paper exploits data gathered from 11 online monthly surveys. The first survey took place in June, 2019 and the last survey in March, 2022.)
Universe:
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U.S. citizens aged 18 and over.
Data Type(s):
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survey data
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