Free trade in audio-visual services has faced opposition on the grounds that foreign media undermine domestic culture …, and ultimately, global diversity. We assess the media-culture link using name frequencies as a measure of tastes. Using a …, fixed effects, and lagged popularity as controls, our regression results suggest that media affect choices by informing …

hierarchical clustering and robust cross-sectional regression models to avoid heteroscedasticity. The main results indicate highly …

culture from other confounds, however, is often a daunting, sometimes intractable challenge for the working empiricist. To …, environmental, and genetic variation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we estimate discontinuities at the border in terms of … of the border. Our results show multiple discontinuities and thus indicate a potential role of culture to shape …