This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main …

In "Bowling Alone," Putnam (1995) famously argued that the rise of television may be responsible for social capital …'s decline. I investigate this hypothesis in the context of Indonesian villages. To identify the impact of exposure to television … watching television and listening to radio, is associated with substantially lower levels of participation in social activities …

television news. We argue that the scoring rule can serve as a useful control variable in settings where a researcher wishes to …

This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States …