Calendrier du 02 juillet 2020
brown bag Travail et Économie Publique
Du 02/07/2020 de 11:00 à 12:00
ZOOM
LOEWE Simon (PSE)
What Happens when The Sun goes down: The role of media in welfare take-up
écrit avec Yagan Hazard
Despite heightened attention of the economics literature in the past decades, low take-up of social benefits remains a pervasive problem around the world. The economics literature has identified the role of complexity and information costs in driving non-take-up. However, causal evidence on the effects of stigma is currently lacking, despite extensive qualitative evidence from the sociological literature. In this paper, we focus on one driver of social-benefit stigma: the media. We use the Hillsborough disaster as a natural experiment which generated a plausibly exogenous variation in consumption of a stigmatizing media outlet, The Sun. We use event-study and difference-in-differences approaches to examine the effect of this variation on take-up of social benefits.