Impact of Long Run Exposure to Television on Homicides : Some Evidence from Brazil

This paper focuses on the link between television coverage and violent crime, in particular, homicides in Brazil, a country where crime has grown dramatically in recent decades. Using Census data for the period 1980–2000, the paper finds that people living in areas covered by television signal have...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chong, Alberto, Yañez-Pagans, Mónica
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24610