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This paper argues that the emergence of knowledge hierarchies in the modern U.S. firms since the late 19th century, expedited by huge progress in communication technology, played a significant role in the expansion of mass secondary education called the high school movement in the U.S. in the...
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Die Diskussion um das digital divide oder die digitale Spaltung, wie sie für den deutschsprachigen Raum übersetzt wird, wird nun schon seit nahezu zehn Jahren intensiv geführt.1 Vor allem im Rahmen der politischen Diskussion hat sich das Bedrohungsszenario einer digitalen Spaltung innerhalb...
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television stations. Instrumenting for the possible endogeneity of media activity to public spending, 2SLS results confirm a …
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television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly …
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This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential … introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal reception due to topography to estimate the …
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We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies on a district-fixed effects approach and controlling for local economic development. The...
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We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … Competitive Media Reporting. Exposure to fast-food restaurant advertising on television causes statistically significant increases …
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regime. We conduct an empirical assessment, looking at the influence of television and newspapers on the support for Koizumi … support for his principal policy and (2) the effect of watching television is only observed for women and that of reading the … newspaper only for men. Thus, a charismatic male leader on television has a greater influence than his policy on female voters …
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regime. We conduct an empirical assessment, looking at the influence of television and newspapers on the support for Koizumi … support for his principal policy and (2) the effect of watching television is only observed for women and that of reading the … newspaper only for men. Thus, a charismatic male leader on television has a greater influence than his policy on female voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110919
television stations. Instrumenting for the possible endogeneity of media activity to public spending, 2SLS results confirm a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114299