Replication of "Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and ICE Reporting Interest: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study of Web Search Data"

This project replicates and extends this paper. It focuses on the relationship between media coverage and google searches regarding the topic of immigration, specifically google searches about reporting immigrants to ICE. The original paper uses Google Trends and Bing search data, combined with automated content analysis of cable news transcripts.

We replicated tables 3-4 and figures 2-4 using Google Trends data and a topic model that was given to us.

Requirements

R, with the following packages: tidyverse, ggplot2, stargazer, and stm

Running the Code

Run the code from the Data_Replication.Rmd Markdown file

Alternatively, you can use this link to view the results of the replication

Files

Data_Replication.Rmd: Replication code in Markdown format

Data_Replication.html: Rendered output of our Markdown file