Similar Search Results

Television and divorce : evidence from Brazilian novelas

Chong, Alberto; La Ferrara, Eliana - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 7 (2009) 2/3, pp. 458-468

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003869573

A test of racial bias in capital sentencing

Alesina, Alberto; La Ferrara, Eliana - 2011 - First Version: April 2009; This Version: April 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335166

A test of racial bias in capital sentencing

Alesina, Alberto; La Ferrara, Eliana - In: The American economic review 104 (2014) 11, pp. 3397-3433

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468712

Television and divorce : evidence from Brazilian Novelas

Chong, Alberto; La Ferrara, Eliana - 2009

This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globo - the network that had a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the country - across municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980...