TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gentzkow, Matthew
AU  - Shapiro, Jesse M
TI  - Ideology and Online News
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 19675
PY  - 2013
Y2  - November 2013
DO  - 10.3386/w19675
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w19675
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w19675.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Matthew Gentzkow
Department of Economics
Stanford University
579 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305
Tel: 650/723-3721
Fax: 650/725-5702
E-Mail: gentzkow@stanford.edu

Jesse M. Shapiro
Economics Department
Box B
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401/863-2970
E-Mail: jesse_shapiro_1@brown.edu
M1  - published as Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro. "Ideology and Online News," in Avi Goldfarb, Shane M. Greenstein, and Catherine E. Tucker, editors, "Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy" University of Chicago Press (2015)

M3  - presented at "The Economics of Digitization: An Agenda", June 6-7, 2013
AB  - News consumption is moving online. If this move fundamentally changes how news is produced and consumed it will have important ramifications for politics. In this chapter we formulate a model of the supply and demand of news online that is motivated by descriptive features of online news consumption. We estimate the demand model using a combination of microdata and aggregate moments from a panel of Internet users. We evaluate the fit of the model to key features of the data and use it to compute the predictions of the supply model. We discuss how such a model can inform debates about the effects of the Internet on political polarization and other outcomes of interest.
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