Arbeitspapier

Soap operas and fertility: Evidence from Brazil

This paper focuses on fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much smaller than in reality, to study the effects of television on individual behavior. Using Census data for the period 1970-1991, 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, the paper provides evidence that novelas, rather than television in general, affected individual choices.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 633

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Fernsehprogramm
Manipulation
Verhalten
Frauen
Familienplanung
Brasilien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
La Ferrara, Eliana
Chong, Alberto
Duryea, Suzanne
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department
(wo)
Washington, DC
(wann)
2008

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • La Ferrara, Eliana
  • Chong, Alberto
  • Duryea, Suzanne
  • Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department

Entstanden

  • 2008

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