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The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change: Fighting HIV with MTV
Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2019), 45 pp.
"This paper tests the effectiveness of an entertainment education television series, MTV Shuga, aimed at providing information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model, the paper shows that “edutainment” can work through an individual or a social channel. Th
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Entertainment, Education, and Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence
AEA Papers and Proceedings, issue 109 (2019), pp. 133-137
"Entertainment education (“edutainment”) is a communication strategy that works through mass entertainment media with the aim of promoting a better context for behavior change than the delivery of information alone. We experimentally evaluate season 3 of the edutainment TV series MTV Shuga, prod
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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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