media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from 1995 to … for violent movies. The effect is partly due to voluntary incapacitation: between 6PM and 12AM, a one million increase in … the audience for violent movies reduces violent crime by 1.1 to 1.3 percent. After exposure to the movie, between 12AM and …

Using box-office data for all movies released between 1982 and 2000, I test the implications of a simple model of … pieces of evidence are consistent with social learning. First, sales of movies with positive surprise and negative surprise … sales. Second, this divergence is small for movies for which consumers have strong priors and large for movies for which …

Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume … with data on international movie screenings and revenues. First, we quantify the similarity between movies' plots and …