Television and Divorce: Evidence from Brazilian Novelas

• Published in: IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc
• Main Authors: Eliana La Ferrara, Chong, Alberto E
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 01.01.2009

This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globothe network that had a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the countryacross municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980 and 1991) a...