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Using Electromagnetic Signal Propagation Models for Radio and Television Broadcasts: An Introduction

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  • Crabtree, Charles
  • Kern, Holger L.

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This note offers an introduction to electromagnetic signal propagation models, which can be used to model terrestrial radio and television signal strength across space. Such data are useful to social scientists interested in identifying the effects of mass media broadcasts when (i) individual-level data on media exposure do not exist or when (ii) media exposure, while observed, is not exogenous. We illustrate the use of electromagnetic signal propagation models by creating a signal strength measure of military-controlled radio stations during the 2012 coup in Mali.

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  • Crabtree, Charles & Kern, Holger L., 2018. "Using Electromagnetic Signal Propagation Models for Radio and Television Broadcasts: An Introduction," Political Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 26(3), pages 348-355, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:polals:v:26:y:2018:i:03:p:348-355_00
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    1. Friehe, Tim & Müller, Helge & Neumeier, Florian, 2018. "The effect of Western TV on crime: Evidence from East Germany," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 346-372.
    2. Alex Armand & Paul Atwell & Joseph F. Gomes & Yannik Schenk, 2023. "It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman! Using mass media to fight intolerance," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp2302, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
    3. Robert Gonzalez, 2022. "Mobile phone access and insurgent violence: Evidence from a radio wave propagation model in Afghanistan," HiCN Working Papers 370, Households in Conflict Network.

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