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Vasudevan, Srinivasan.

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Essays on the Economic, Political, and Social Effects of Mass Media.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays on the Economic, Political, and Social Effects of Mass Media./
Author:	Vasudevan, Srinivasan.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	154 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	Economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10282732
ISBN:	9781369811995

Essays on the Economic, Political, and Social Effects of Mass Media.
Vasudevan, Srinivasan.

Essays on the Economic, Political, and Social Effects of Mass Media. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 154 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2017.

This dissertation consists of three essays that examine the impact of mass media on outcomes related to elections, technology adoption, and women's welfare. In my first chapter, I examine the impact of a large-scale anti-vote-buying voter education campaign during the 2014 Indian general elections. We broadcast ads on randomly selected radio stations, emphasizing the incentives of politicians who distribute "gifts'' to voters and the likely economic consequences of electing them. Based on interviews of a large number of journalists, we identify parties that engaged in vote buying in different areas. Using official electoral data, we find that the radio campaign significantly decreased the vote share of the putative vote-buying parties by 4 to 7 percentage points.

ISBN: 9781369811995Subjects--Topical Terms:

517137
Economics.

Essays on the Economic, Political, and Social Effects of Mass Media.
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520 $a After the mass introduction of high yielding varieties (HYV) of wheat and rice in 1966, the Indian government aggressively promoted their adoption on regional radio stations across the country. In my second chapter, I estimate the effect of this large informational intervention on HYV adoption by exploiting a natural experiment---the differential time of introduction of radio coverage in different parts of the country. I document a persistent impact of introduction on adoption of HYV rice but only a transient effect on adoption of HYV wheat; consistent with the argument that spatial diffusion of information, a substitute for information from radio, was easier for HYV wheat than HYV rice.
520 $a In my third chapter, I assess the impact of introduction of cable TV to Indian villages on crowding out of women's social participation, in addition to studying its impact on women's health knowledge, fertility preferences and outcomes, and status and autonomy. To identify the effect, I apply a difference-in-difference strategy using a two rounds of a national household panel dataset of rural households from 2004 and 2011. I do not find any effect of cable TV on women's health knowledge, or fertility preferences and outcomes. While I find that it improved women's status, it had little effect on their autonomy in decision-making and mobility. There is, however, clear evidence that cable TV significantly decreased women's social participation.
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