This paper tests the effectiveness of an entertainment education television series, MTV Shuga, aimed at providing …, where young viewers were exposed to MTV Shuga or a placebo television series. Among those exposed to MTV Shuga, the trial …

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 …

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 …