Three papers discussing the effects of media exposure on reproductive behavior.
*A funny curious finding: "the likelihood that the twenty most popular names chosen by parents for their newborns would include one or more names of the main characters of novelas aired that year was about 33 percent if the area where parents lived received the Globo signal and only 8.5 percent if it did not."
Ferrara et al (2008). Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil. IDB Working Paper Nº 533 *
Chong and La Ferrara (2010). Television and divorce: Evidence from Brazilian novelas. J. European Economic Association.
Westoff and Koffman (2011). The Association of Television and Radio with Reproductive Behavior. Population and Development Review.
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