How informed are voters about political news?
Journalistic truth isn’t dead, a new study has found, but socioeconomic factors affect people’s ability to identify real news.
Faculty
Charles Angelucci is the Class of 1957 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
He was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia Business School from 2015 to 2020, where he taught an MBA elective course on Competitive Strategy. Charles conducts research in Organizational Economics and Political Economy, with a particular interest in governance issues and news media markets.
Charles Angelucci completed his PhD at the Toulouse School of Economics.
Angelucci, Charles, Julia Cagé, and Michael Sinkinson. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. Forthcoming. Online Appendix. SSRN Preprint. Vox. The Hill.
Angelucci, Charles, and Andrea Prat (Conditionally Accepted at the American Economic Review), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6132-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, April 2023. Online Appendix. Slow Boring. The Hill.
Angelucci, Charles and Roi Orzach, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6952-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2023.
Angelucci, Charles, Simone Meraglia, and Nico Voigtlaender, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6950-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2023.
Angelucci, Charles and Roi Orzach, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6951-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2023.
Angelucci, Charles, Elliot Ash, and Nicolas Longuet Marx, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6949-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2023.
Journalistic truth isn’t dead, a new study has found, but socioeconomic factors affect people’s ability to identify real news.
When consuming less local news, voters are more likely to vote consistently for just one party—essentially using national news to inform local voting decisions, according to research from MIT Sloan.
...an increase in straight ticket voting, in turn, translates into more polarized voters, said Charles Angelucci, one of the study's authors.
“We found large variations and inequalities in voters' awareness of news...across age, gender, partisan preference, and socioeconomic status."
“A direct link exists between how much voters know about the news and the attention those voters receive from politicians.”