; ; ; "ActiveFedora::Aggregation::ListSource" . a , ; "Do Newspapers Matter? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Closure of The Cincinnati Post"; ; "batchuser@example.com"; "Garrido, Miguel", "Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam"; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis"; "Newspapers", "Elections", "Joint operating agreements"; "K21 - Antitrust Law", "D72 - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior", "L82 - Entertainment; Media", "N82 - Micro-Business History: U.S.; Canada: 1913-"; "_The Cincinnati Post_ published its last edition on New Year's Eve 2007, leaving the _Cincinnati Enquirer_ as the only daily newspaper in the market. The next year, fewer candidates ran for municipal office in the Kentucky suburbs most reliant on the _Post_, incumbents became more likely to win re-election, and voter turnout and campaign spending fell. These changes happened even though the _Enquirer_ at least temporarily increased its coverage of the _Post_'s former strongholds. Voter turnout remained depressed through 2010, nearly three years after the _Post_ closed, but the other effects diminished with time. We exploit a difference-in-differences strategy and the fact that the _Post_'s closing date was fixed 30 years in advance to rule out some noncausal explanations for our results. Although our findings are statistically imprecise, they suggest that newspapers - even underdogs such as the _Post_, which had a circulation of just 27,000 when it closed - can have a substantial and measurable impact on public life."^^; "2012-09-27"; "2019-06-04T14:36:45.869356182+00:00"^^; "https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.474"; ; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "2020-05-08T21:26:03.238169559+00:00"^^; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Research Paper"; "710", "262"; "Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)"; "474"; "Newspapers", "Elections", "Joint operating agreements"; ; ; ; ; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department"; """Published in: _Journal of Media Economics_ (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2013, pp. 60-81) https://doi.org/10.1080/08997764.2013.785553. [Additional Files](https://researchdatabase.minneapolisfed.org/downloads/dv13zt27v?locale=en) Related paper: [Working Paper 686: Do Newspapers Matter? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Closure of The Cincinnati Post](https://doi.org/10.21034/wp.686)"""^^; ; "Publication" . ; .