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 …

This paper develops a model of cultural transmission where television plays a central role for socialization. Parents … socialize the children to the wrong trait. The free to air television industry maximizes advertisement revenue. We show that TV … cultural distance between the two traits. A monopolistic television industry captures all TV watching by both groups if the …