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Edutainment Television Programmes
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Soap Operas & Telenovelas
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Rural Communication for Development
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Rural Women & Communication
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Rede Globo (Television Network, Brazil)
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Behaviour Change Communication
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Social Change & Media / Communication
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Gender Relations
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Gender Representation & Stereotypes in the Media
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Media Effects
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Social Functions & Effects of the Media
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Television Reception & Effects
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Fertility
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Medios de comunicación, contenidos y comportamiento: Algunos énfasis sobre la inclusión financiera
Enbreve, issue 49 (2014), 13 pp.
"Este documento resume la literatura reciente sobre el rol de los medios de comunicación con relación al comportamiento social haciendo particular énfasis en contenidos de inclusión social. Nuestro objetivo es modesto: simplemente tratar de crear consciencia sobre el importante rol que herramien
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Television and Divorce: Evidence from Brazilian Novelas
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2009), 17 pp.
"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 and
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Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2008), 45 pp.
"What are the effects of television, and of role models portrayed in TV programs, on individual behavior? We focus on fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much smaller than in reality. We exploit differences in the timing of entry into differen
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