摘要翻译:
我们研究了一种压制异议表达的新工具的影响--对社交媒体使用征收每日税。使用一个综合控制框架,我们估计该税将乌干达的GeoreFerened Twitter用户数量减少了13%。对较贫穷和不太频繁的使用者来说,估计的治疗效果更大。尽管推特的使用总体下降,但提及集体行动的推特增加了31%,观察到的抗议增加了47%。这些结果表明,对社交媒体使用征税可能不是减少政治异议的有效工具。
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英文标题:
《Taxing dissent: The impact of a social media tax in Uganda》
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作者:
Levi Boxell and Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld
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最新提交年份:
2019
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分类信息:
一级分类:Economics 经济学
二级分类:General Economics 一般经济学
分类描述:General methodological, applied, and empirical contributions to economics.
对经济学的一般方法、应用和经验贡献。
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一级分类:Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类:Economics 经济学
分类描述:q-fin.EC is an alias for econ.GN. Economics, including micro and macro economics, international economics, theory of the firm, labor economics, and other economic topics outside finance
q-fin.ec是econ.gn的别名。经济学,包括微观和宏观经济学、国际经济学、企业理论、劳动经济学和其他金融以外的经济专题
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英文摘要:
We examine the impact of a new tool for suppressing the expression of dissent---a daily tax on social media use. Using a synthetic control framework, we estimate that the tax reduced the number of georeferenced Twitter users in Uganda by 13 percent. The estimated treatment effects are larger for poorer and less frequent users. Despite the overall decline in Twitter use, tweets referencing collective action increased by 31 percent and observed protests increased by 47 percent. These results suggest that taxing social media use may not be an effective tool for reducing political dissent.
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PDF链接:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.04107