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 …

Survey-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) and the Nielsen Company data on spot television advertising of cereals, fast food … food advertising on television and children's food consumption and body weight. Our results suggest that soft drink and … fast food television advertising is associated with increased consumption of soft drinks and fast food among elementary …

. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was … significant impact of previous exposure to Western television on aggregate consumption levels. However, exposure to Western …

Beginning in 1997, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed television advertisements to make major statements …

advertising on children and adolescents being overweight. The advertising measure used is the number of hours of spot television … banned completely from television …

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 …

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 …

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