Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages

This paper investigates the impact of television and radio on social capital in Indonesia. I use two sources of variation in signal reception -- one based on Indonesia's mountainous terrain, and a second based on the differential introduction of private television throughout Indonesia. I find t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olken, Benjamin A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61739
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631