A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Cantoni, Davide

doi:10.1162/rest_a_00522

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“…See also Kranz (2013, p.76)). In Section A.I.iv we examine this channel by (a) employing individual-level proxies for ideology and (b) exploiting exogenous spatial variation in the availability of West German TV (Bursztyn and Cantoni, 2015). Although the analysis has some caveats, overall we fail to reject the null hypothesis of no propaganda effect on attitudes.…”

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“…where the variable No West TV c is a dummy for lack of predicted reception of West TV (based on a signal propagation model) in the individual's county of residence. No West TV is built starting from the municipality-level measure used in Bursztyn and Cantoni (2015)'s investigation of the effect of exposure to West German TV on the consumption behavior of East Germans. 75 We first use their data of West TV signal in East German municipalities to calculate the weighted (by municipality area) average signal at county level.…”

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“…76 Ideally, one wants to classify municipalities based on a dummy variable for receiving or not the signal. However, as Bursztyn and Cantoni (2015) point out, the discontinuity of TV signal strength is fuzzy. They thus use the anecdotal evidence that Dresden was close to the signal discontinuity, and define a municipality as not receiving any West German TV if it had a signal strength weaker than or equal to that in Dresden.…”

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“…We find evidence that increased female access to higher education and fulltime employment, arguably two of the very few positive aspects of living under state-socialism, may have served as channels for regime influence. We also explore the extent to which women were affected by government propaganda by (a) employing individual-level proxies for ideology and (b) exploiting exogenous spatial variation in the availability of West German TV (Bursztyn and Cantoni, 2015); we fail to reject the null hypothesis of no propaganda effect on attitudes.…”

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This paper investigates the extent to which attitudes are affected by political regimes and government policies. We focus on female attitudes toward work and gender-role attitudes in the population at large, which have been shown to have significant effects on labor market outcomes. We exploit the imposition of state-socialist regimes across Central and Eastern Europe, and their efforts to promote women's economic inclusion, for both instrumental and ideological reasons, presenting evidence from two different datasets. First, we take advantage of the German partition into East and West after 1945 and unique access to restricted information on place of residence to implement a spatial regression discontinuity design. We find more positive attitudes toward work in the sample of East German women. We also find evidence that increased female access to higher education and fulltime employment, arguably two of the very few positive aspects of living under state-socialism, may have served as channels for regime influence. Second, we employ a difference-indifferences strategy that compares attitudes formed in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) and Western European Countries (WECs), before and after the imposition of state socialism in CEECs. Gender-role attitudes formed in CEECs during the state socialist period appear to be significantly less traditional than those formed in WECs. [Z10, P51, J16]

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“…Since we use three cross-sectional data sets from 1991/1992, 1997/1998, and 2005 a strictly causal interpretation of β and ψ requires several assumptions. However, almost all assumptions are standard and well-established in the literature that uses the German reunification as a natural experiment (Frijters et al, 2004b(Frijters et al, ,a, 2005Fuchs-Schündeln and Schündeln, 2005;Alesina and Fuchs-Schündeln, 2007;Fuchs-Schündeln, 2008;Rainer, 2013;Brosig-Koch et al, 2011;Heineck, 2013;Bursztyn, 2015;Burchardi and Hassan, 2013;Friehe and Mechtel, 2014).…”

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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism

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2015

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This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare, and possibly lead to changes in body weight. We test our model employing the German reunification as a fast motion natural experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A significant population share permanently gained weight. This is consistent with our theoretical framework where past affects current consumption, and where novel goods determine consumption changes over time with ambiguous effects on dietrelated health.

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TV exposure and food consumption patterns–evidence from Indonesia

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Worldwide, children and adolescents are increasingly exposed to media. In particular, television (TV) continues to dominate the media landscape despite the emergence of digital media. On average, 89% of adolescents and 79% of children report watching more than one hour of television per day, although there are substantial differences among countries (Braithwaite et al., 2013). The increasing number of TV programs for children is one reason for the prominent role of television in many children's lives (Kunkel et al., 2004). Owing to this development, public health researchers have analyzed the impact of television exposure on children's short-term development. 1 Studying the specific impact on children is important because they are increasingly understood as an independent consumer group and becoming subject to more tailored marketing strategies (Kunkel et al., 2004). Moreover, children are more susceptible to marketing messages because the parts of the brain that are responsible for regulatory mechanisms are not fully developed until late adolescence (Pechmann et al., 2005). Experimental evidence suggests that even 10 year-old children still struggle to understand the persuasive intention of advertising (Oates et al., 2002).Against this backdrop, one important question is whether television can alter children's food preferences in the long run. This paper shows that exposure to TV during childhood can affect food consumption in adulthood. In particular,

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A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior

Cited by 91 publications

References 40 publications

Politico-Economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers under State Socialism

Politico-Economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers under State Socialism

Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism

TV exposure and food consumption patterns–evidence from Indonesia

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