This paper focuses on fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much …-1991, the paper finds that women living in areas covered by the Globo signal have significantly lower fertility. The effect is … strongest for women of lower socioeconomic status and for women in the central and late phases of their fertility cycle. Finally …

This paper focuses on fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much …-1991, the paper finds that women living in areas covered by the Globo signal have significantly lower fertility. The effect is … strongest for women of lower socioeconomic status and for women in the central and late phases of their fertility cycle. Finally …

round. Women earn 40% less than men and exit the game at a faster rate, but especially when in a minority. This latter …

This paper focuses on fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much …-1991, the paper finds that women living in areas covered by the Globo signal have significantly lower fertility. The effect is … strongest for women of lower socioeconomic status and for women in the central and late phases of their fertility cycle. Finally …

municipalities in Brazil, I show that these technologies reduced female earnings and employment in agriculture, without reallocation …