I study the political impact of the first populist radio personality in American history. Father
Charles Coughlin blended populist demagoguery, anti-Semitism, and fascist sympathies to …

This paper studies the effects of immigration on crime and crime perceptions in Chile, where
the foreign-born population tripled in less than ten years. We document null effects of …

We study how news coverage of immigrant criminality impacts voting in one of the most
controversial referendums in recent years—the 2009 Swiss minaret ban. We combine a …

This paper investigates the effect of media coverage on immigration attitudes. It combines
data on immigration coverage in French television with individual panel data from 2013 to …

The war in Ukraine seems to have positively changed the attitude toward the critical societal
topic of migration in Europe–at least towards refugees from Ukraine. We investigate whether …

This paper analyses whether the systematic disclosure of criminals' origins in the press
affects natives' attitudes towards immigration. It takes advantage of the unilateral change in …

Recent political instability in the Middle East has triggered one of the largest influxes of
refugees into Europe. The different departure points along the Turkish coast generate …

Local exposure to conservative news causes judges to impose harsher criminal sentences.
Our evidence comes from an instrumental variable analysis, where randomness in television …

We study the impact of the media negativity bias on tax compliance. Through a framed
laboratory experiment, we assess how the exposure to biased news about government …

We study the role of perceived threats from other cultures induced by terrorist attacks and
criminal events on public discourse and support for radical‐right parties. We develop a rule …