CEPR Workshop

Media, Technology, Politics & Society


The EIEF villa at Via Sallustiana 62, Rome
EIEF, Via Sallustiana 62 · photo: EIEF
Fourth Edition

EIEF, Rome — June 25–26, 2026

Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, Via Sallustiana 62 · Thirteen papers · Talks: 50 minutes = 30 (author) + 10 (discussant) + 10 (Q&A)

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Program

Thursday, June 25

Chair: Andrea Prat

  1. 09.30 – 10.00Registration & welcoming coffee
  2. 10.00 – 10.50

    “Moral Regulation and Cultural Production: Evidence from Hollywood”

    David Strömberg (Stockholm University)

    with Ruixue Jia

    DiscussantCharles Angelucci (MIT)

  3. 10.50 – 11.40

    “Frictions in News Consumption: Evidence from Social Media”

    Luca Braghieri (Università Bocconi)

    with Ro’ee Levy and Hannah Trachtman

    DiscussantAndrey Simonov (Columbia University)

  4. 11.40 – 12.10Coffee break
  5. 12.10 – 13.00

    “The Joe Rogan Effect: Politicized Podcasts and the Youth Gender Gap”

    Federico Masera (UNSW Sydney)

    with Elliott Ash, Sergio Galletta, and Lehan Zhang

    DiscussantHeyu Xiong (Case Western Reserve University)

  6. 13.00 – 14.30Lunch
  7. 14.30 – 15.20

    “Algorithms and Parasitic Content”

    Nancy Wang (MIT)

    with Hannah Solheim

    DiscussantRafael Jiménez-Durán (Università Bocconi)

  8. 15.20 – 16.10

    “The Well-Being Effects of Digital Mental Health Care”

    Manuela Angelucci (University of Texas at Austin)

    with Raissa Fabregas and Antonia Vazquez

    DiscussantMatthew Ridley (University of Warwick)

  9. 16.10 – 16.40Coffee break
  10. 16.40 – 17.30

    “An Image is Worth 40.38 Words: Partisanship and Attention in Videos”

    Andrea Ciccarone (Columbia University)

    DiscussantGiulia Caprini (Sciences Po)

  11. 17.30 – 18.20

    “Mobile Broadband and the Decline of Incumbency Advantage”

    Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics)

    with Sergei Guriev, Nikita Melnikov, and Joana Escorcio Silva

    DiscussantMarkus Prior (Princeton University)

  12. 19.45 –Dinner (by invitation only)

Friday, June 26

Chairs: Alexey Makarin (morning) · Francesco Sobbrio (afternoon)

  1. 10.00 – 10.50

    “What Motivates Partisan Selective Exposure? Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election”

    Michael Thaler (University College London)

    with Peter Robertson and Matthew Gentzkow

    DiscussantRo’ee Levy (Tel Aviv University)

  2. 10.50 – 11.40

    “Media Education, Access to News and Information Inequality: Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools”

    Julia Cagé (Sciences Po)

    with Simon Briole and Andrea Prat

    DiscussantMatthew Gentzkow (Stanford University)

  3. 11.40 – 12.10Coffee break
  4. 12.10 – 13.00

    “Ambiguous Attribution: Theory and Evidence from Public Service Provision”

    Gerard Padró i Miquel (Yale University)

    with Ricardo Alonso, Monica Martinez-Bravo, Carlos Sanz, and Silvia Vannutelli

    DiscussantMaria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

  5. 13.00 – 14.30Lunch
  6. 14.30 – 15.20

    “GenAI Misinformation, Trust, and News Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment”

    Ruben Durante* (National University of Singapore, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and CEPR)

    with Filipe Campante, Felix Hagemeister, and Ananya Sen

    DiscussantAndrew M. Guess (Princeton University)

  7. 15.20 – 16.10

    “Identity in Journalism: Evidence from News Reporting of Violence against Women”

    Claudia Marangon (Harvard University)

    DiscussantSilvia Vannutelli (Sciences Po and Northwestern)

  8. 16.10 – 16.40Coffee break
  9. 16.40 – 17.30

    “Polarization and Exposure to Cross-Partisan Media in an Electoral Autocracy”

    Horacio Larreguy (ITAM)

    with Jeremy Bowles, Shelley Liu, and Ahmet Akbiyik

    DiscussantRuben Enikolopov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

  10. 19.45 –Optional dinner (non-sponsored)

* Ruben Durante gratefully acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program (Grant Agreement No. 101125953).

Participants

Affiliations as of June 2026.

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