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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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We test the effectiveness of an entertainment education TV series, MTV Shuga, aimed at providing information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model we show that "edutainment" can work through an individual or a social channel. We conducted a randomized...
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This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main …
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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 …
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A central challenge in estimating the causal effect of TV advertising on demand is isolating quasi-random variation in advertising. Political advertising, which topped $14 billion in expenditures in 2016, has been proposed as a plausible source of such variation and thus a candidate for an...
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