This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main …

We use heterogeneity in the timing of television's introduction to different local markets to identify the effect of … preschool television exposure on standardized test scores later in life. Our preferred point estimate indicates that an … additional year of preschool television exposure raises average test scores by about .02 standard deviations. We are able to …

An extensive literature in medicine investigates the health consequences of early childhood television watching …. However, this literature does not address the issue of reverse causation, i.e., does early childhood television watching cause … specific health outcomes or do children more likely to have these health outcomes watch more television? This paper uses a …

from network television shows. Networks fear that availability of their clips on YouTube will depress television viewing …. But unauthorized clips are also free advertising for television shows. As YouTube has grown quickly, major networks have … web distribution on television viewing between 2005 and 2007 using a survey of Penn students on their tendencies to watch …

expresses this prediction as “television kills your sex life.” This paper examines the association between television ownership … continents. The results suggest that while television may not kill your sex life, it is associated with some sex life morbidity …. Under our most conservative estimate, we find that television ownership is associated with approximately a 6% reduction in …

childhood television viewing serves as such a trigger. Using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey, we first … establish that the amount of television a young child watches is positively related to the amount of precipitation in the child …'s community. This suggests that, if television is a trigger for autism, then autism should be more prevalent in communities that …

In quot;Bowling Alone,quot; Putnam (1995) famously argued that the rise of television may be responsible for social … television (and radio), I exploit plausibly exogenous differences in over-the-air signal strength associated with the topography … spent watching television and listening to radio, is associated with substantially lower levels of participation in social …