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

A central challenge in estimating the causal effect of TV advertising on demand is isolating quasi-random variation in … advertising. Political advertising, which topped $14 billion in expenditures in 2016, has been proposed as a plausible source of … identify the causal effect of TV advertising on demand, highlight threats to the exclusion restriction and monotonicity …

primary schooling and literacy revolution in Europe. Under what conditions would we expect the same responses to globalization … abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in …

global economy. It builds on the models of Davis (1997a, b) of trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid wage Europe …

the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been …

history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would … populist politicians highlight. The first has been predominant in Latin America, and the second in Europe. I argue that these … different reactions are related to the relative salience of different types of globalization shocks …

. But unauthorized clips are also free advertising for television shows. As YouTube has grown quickly, major networks have … from network television shows. Networks fear that availability of their clips on YouTube will depress television viewing … web distribution on television viewing between 2005 and 2007 using a survey of Penn students on their tendencies to watch …

childhood television viewing serves as such a trigger. Using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey, we first … establish that the amount of television a young child watches is positively related to the amount of precipitation in the child …'s community. This suggests that, if television is a trigger for autism, then autism should be more prevalent in communities that …