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 …

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 …

Can television have a mitigating e.ect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals in … some areas of East Germany . due to their geographic location . could not receive West German television until 1989. We … conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus have …

Can television have a mitigating e.ect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals in … some areas of East Germany - due to their geographic location - could not receive West German television until 1989. We … conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus have …

Can television have a mitigating effect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals … in some areas of East Germany – due to their geographic location – could not receive West German television until 1989 …. We conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus …

Can television have a mitigating e.ect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals in … some areas of East Germany - due to their geographic location - could not receive West German television until 1989. We … conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus have …