Abstract
Can fake news affect individual beliefs? We exploit the natural experiment of ‘the night of collective panic' in Bogotá, combining administrative data from emergency calls, tweets, and elicited beliefs, to answer this question. The outcome variables are the perceived levels of insecurity within the neighbourhood. We fail to reject the hypothesis that the perception of insecurity was unaffected. We cannot exclude that the sample's demographic characteristics drive the null result.
Lingua originale | Inglese |
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pagine (da-a) | 1-9 |
Numero di pagine | 9 |
Rivista | Economics Bulletin |
Volume | 2022 |
Numero di pubblicazione | 42 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2022 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Economia, Econometria e Finanza Generali
Keywords
- beliefs
- fake news
- violence