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Soap Opera, Fertility and Inequality: Can we build some relationship?

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  • Michael França
  • Eduardo Haddad

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There is a growing literature linking fertility and development. In certain contexts, fertility may become an important mechanism to enhance intergenerational propagation of socioeconomic inequalities. In this paper, we sought to explore the evidence provided by Ferrara, Chong, and Duryea (2012) that soap operas had a significant impact on women's fertility and used the variation of the time of the entry of the Globo Network in different areas to test whether the impact generated on fertility had some repercussion in the evolution of income inequality in Brazil.

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  • Michael França & Eduardo Haddad, 2017. "Soap Opera, Fertility and Inequality: Can we build some relationship?," Working Papers, Department of Economics 2017_30, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).
    • Handle: RePEc:spa:wpaper:2017wpecon30
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    Keywords

    Fertility; Inequality; Gini; Theil.;
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    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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