This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of … for relatively smaller areas, where the signal reaches a higher fraction of the population. -- Divorce ; Television …

television stations. Instrumenting for the possible endogeneity of media activity to public spending, 2SLS results confirm a … media effects with spatial autocorrelation. -- Public spending ; information ; television ; elections …

In a recently published article, Bruni and Stanca (2008) suggest that television viewing has a negative impact on life … claim that television viewing in general has a negative impact on individual happiness. Using a large cross- country … concluding about television’s effect on life satisfaction -- Relational goods ; Subjective well-being ; TV consumption …

In this paper, we analyze the equilibrium amount of entertainment in news coverage of newspapers and television … both media outlets to incorporate more entertaining elements in news coverage. The introduction of commercial television …, however, which leads to a unilateral fall in the distance costs to the television broadcast, yields different results. It …