these predictions. Radio and television penetration and usage are associated with diminished levels of civil conflict and …

landslide electoral victory, this study empirically assesses the influence of television (TV) and newspapers on individuals … platform, charisma and attractiveness wield a greater influence on TV watchers of the opposite sex. Television apparently works …

television viewing rate for the race led to a 1% increase in the number of applicants for the universities participating in the … race. It follows that advertising universities on television would be effective in the university market. …

Television is the dominant entertainment medium for hundreds of millions. This chapter surveys the economic forces that … determine the production and consumption of this content. It presents recent trends in television and online video markets, both … number of distinct themes emerge, including the growing importance of the pay-television sector, the role played by content …

television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly …

Can television have a mitigating effect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals … in some areas of East Germany - due to their geographic location - could not receive West German television until 1989 …. We conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus …