The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India
By Robert T. Jensen, Emily Oster. 2009
931 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Abhijit Banerjee
- Esther Duflo
- J. Morduch
- Thorsten Beck
- Daron Acemoglu
- Georgy Egorov
- Leonardo Bursztyn
- Bilal Zia
In Gender Studies
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- Leonardo Bursztyn
- Tarun Jain
- Diva Dhar
- A. Taffesse
- Tanguy Bernard
- Abhijit Banerjee
- D. Luca
In Sociology and Political Science
- J. Morduch
- S. Jayachandran
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- Abhijit Banerjee
- Stefan Dercon
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- Georgy Egorov
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Citations in the corpus
- The Effects of Social Movements: Evidence from #MeToo (2020, background): “Several studies have shown that popular culture, motherhood, education, and programs empowering women can affect gender norms and behavior (e.g., Jensen and Oster, 2009; La Ferrara et al., 2012; Banerjee et al., 2019; Dhar et al., 2020; Green et al., 2020; Kuziemko et al., 2020; Field et al., 2021).”
- Entertainment, Education, and Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence (2019, positive): “We contribute to the non-experimental literature on the impact of commercial television on gender outcomes (e.g., Chong and La Ferrara, 2009; Jensen and Oster, 2009; La Ferrara, Chong and Duryea, 2012; Kearney and Levine, 2015) and to recent experimental work that uses edutainment for public policy…”
- Harnessing Emotional Connections to Improve Financial Decisions: Evaluating the Impact of Financial Education through Mainstream Media (2013, background): “Finally, Brown and Cody (2006) explore the effects of a pro-social soap opera “Hum Log” on promoting the status of women in India.”
- The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Forward-Looking Behaviour in Rural Ethiopia (2014, positive): “As a side contribution, our results confirm that video-based interventions can be effective in altering perceptions and behaviours (see Berg and Zia (2013) on financial education and financial behaviour in South Africa; Jensen and Oster (2009) on female autonomy in India; Paluck (2009) on a radio pr”
- Education, Marriage, and Fertility: Long-Term Evidence from a Female Stipend Program in Bangladesh (2017, neutral): “, 2012) and India (Jensen and Oster, 2009).”
- Access to modern energy: a review of barriers, drivers and impacts (2016, background): “Media exposure can have important impacts on development outcomes (La Ferrara, 2016), particularly on female empowerment (Jensen and Oster, 2009), divorce (Chong and La Ferrara, 2009), social capital (Olken, 2009) and fertility (La Ferrara et al.”
- Perceived Self-Efficacy, Poverty, and Economic Development (2017, methodology): “A natural experiment using a similar mechanism is reported by Jensen & Oster (2009).”