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

Michael França () and Eduardo Haddad
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No 2017_30, Working Papers, Department of Economics from University of São Paulo (FEA-USP)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Fertility; Inequality; Gini; Theil. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J16 L82 O15 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-11-14
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