Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Abstract

This Appendix provides additional materials that are also discussed in the paper.In particular, Appendix A presents a vast array of descriptive statistics on our data and of robustness checks on the validity of our identification strategy. Appendix B summarizes the sources for the main variables in our dataset. Appendix C provides a theoretical framing of the empirical results by developing a retrospective voting model linking newspapers, voters, and politicians.