MIT Open Access Articles: Recent submissions

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    • Social Media and Mental Health 

      Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro’ee; Makarin, Alexey (American Economic Association, 2022-11)
      We provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of social media on mental health by leveraging a unique natural experiment: the staggered introduction of Facebook across US colleges. Our analysis couples data on ...

    • Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News 

      Angelucci, Charles; Prat, Andrea (American Economic Association, 2024-04)
      To investigate general patterns in news information in the United States, we combine a protocol for identifying major political news stories, 11 monthly surveys with 15,000 participants, and a model of news discernment. ...

    • How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act 

      Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico (American Economic Association, 2022-10)
      We study the emergence of urban self-governance in the late medieval period. We focus on England after the Norman Conquest of 1066, building a novel comprehensive dataset of 554 medieval towns. During the Commercial ...