We study whether social media can amplify antiminority sentiment with a focus on Donald
Trump's political rise. Using an instrumental variable strategy based on Twitter's early …

Dissent plays an important role in any society, but dissenters are often silenced through
social sanctions. Beyond their persuasive effects, rationales providing arguments supporting …

This paper examines the impact of the 2014–2017 'Refugee Crisis' in Italy on voting
behavior and the rise of right-wing populism in national Parliamentary elections. Our …

We measure how a network of heroes can legitimize and diffuse extreme political behaviors.
We exploit newly declassified intelligence files, novel voting data, and regimental histories to …

The connection between racially prejudiced policing and politics has a long history in the
United States. In the current period, police organizations have displayed unprecedented …

The attitude of individuals towards prevailing social norms can change over time. When
these changes are not observable, norm abidance can remain high due to social costs. We …

We study whether individuals strategically mask signals about their affinity with the LGBTQ+
community in response to anticipated discrimination in prosocial behavior. We use a sharing …

How does discrimination evolve in marketplaces? To explore, we look at the evolution of anti-
Asian bias on Airbnb during the COVID-19 pandemic, a period during which there was …

This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police
killings in the United States from 2013-19. We begin by documenting that the media is …

Does media content influence local institutions? We study this question by looking at how a
negative shock to local crime-related news, induced by the acquisition of local TV stations by …