landslide electoral victory, this study empirically assesses the influence of television (TV) and newspapers on individuals … platform, charisma and attractiveness wield a greater influence on TV watchers of the opposite sex. Television apparently works …

Can television have a mitigating e.ect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals in … some areas of East Germany . due to their geographic location . could not receive West German television until 1989. We … conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus have …

Over more than a decade, advertising rates per 1000 viewers, television consumption as well as the number of … advertising spots have been steadily increasing. As a consequence, television has developed to the most important medium for the …

television stations. Instrumenting for the possible endogeneity of media activity to public spending, 2SLS results confirm a …

Television is the dominant entertainment medium for hundreds of millions. This chapter surveys the economic forces that … determine the production and consumption of this content. It presents recent trends in television and online video markets, both … number of distinct themes emerge, including the growing importance of the pay-television sector, the role played by content …

television viewing rate for the race led to a 1% increase in the number of applicants for the universities participating in the … race. It follows that advertising universities on television would be effective in the university market. …

We investigate the political impact of entertainment television in Italy over the past thirty years by exploiting the …

television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly …

This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of …

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 …