; ; ; "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"; "Joint operating agreements", "Elections", "Newspapers"; "K21 - Antitrust Law", "L82 - Entertainment; Media", "N82 - Micro-Business History: U.S.; Canada: 1913-", "D72 - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior"; "_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 reelection, 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 non-causal explanations for our results. Although our findings are statistically imprecise, they demonstrate 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"^^; "2011-04-07"; "2019-06-24T18:44:02.085778717+00:00"^^; "https://doi.org/10.21034/wp.686"; ; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "2020-05-08T21:07:10.590489086+00:00"^^; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Research Paper"; "710", "262"; "Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)"; "686"; "Joint operating agreements", "Elections", "Newspapers"; ; ; ; ; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department"; """[Additional files](https://researchdatabase.minneapolisfed.org/downloads/dv13zt27v \"Additional Files\") An updated version was published as: [Staff Report 474](https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.474)"""^^; ; "Publication" . ; .