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

Olken, Benjamin A.

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“…Our findings are in clear contrast to the significant negative impact of TV consumption on social capital shown by Olken (2009). It seems that on average, because of the distinguishing feature of interactivity, the Internet is qualitatively different from the television in that its main function is not so much one of passive entertainment.…”

Section: The Internet and Social Activities Of Childrencontrasting

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“…Part of the blame for this has been placed on the advent of new technologies for information, communication, and entertainment that keep people from civic engagement and from connecting to their communities. The prime example is the television; Olken (2009) confirms empirically that TV consumption crowds out social participation in the context of a developing country. Less obvious is the effect of Internet access on social capital.…”

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confidence: 66%

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Surfing alone? The internet and social capital: Evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake

Bauernschuster

Falck

Woessmann

2014

Journal of Public Economics

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Section: The Internet and Social Activities Of Childrencontrasting

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Surfing alone? The internet and social capital: Evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake

Bauernschuster

Falck

Woessmann

2014

Journal of Public Economics

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“…It contributes to an established literature studying the implications of media access for a variety of social and familial outcomes. 7 For example, Olken (2009) finds that the introduction and proliferation of radio and television signals in Indonesian villages decreased social capital. La Ferrara et al (2012) study the implications of soap operas in Brazil, and find that the spread of these television shows reduced fertility rates.…”

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Offline effects of online connecting: the impact of broadband diffusion on teen fertility decisions

Guldi

Herbst

2016

J Popul Econ

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 9076 May 2015 ABSTRACT Offline Effects of Online Connecting: The Impact of Broadband Diffusion on Teen Fertility DecisionsBroadband (high-speed) internet access expanded rapidly from 1999 to 2007. This expansion is associated with higher economic growth and labor market activity. In this paper, we examine whether the rollout also affected the social connections teens make. Specifically, we look at the relationship between increased broadband access and teen fertility. We hypothesize that increasing access to high-speed internet can influence fertility decisions by changing the size of the market as well as increasing the information available to participants in the market. We seek to understand both the overall effect of broadband internet on teen fertility as well as the mechanisms underlying this effect. Our results suggest that increased broadband access explains at least thirteen percent of the decline in the teen birth rate between 1999 and 2007. Although we focus on social markets, this work contributes more broadly to an understanding of how new technology interacts with existing markets. JEL Classification:J13, J18

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“…Media predominantly cover incidences where norms were broken, and a message like "today, no one deviated from a certain norm" will never make the headlines (Norris 1996;Olken 2006;Furedi 2006). This is true for grave incidences of deviant behavior, e.g.…”

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Cosi fan tutte: Information, Beliefs, and Compliance with Norms

Kotzian

2011

Zeitschrift Für Soziologie

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Summary: Social norms help to solve collective dilemmas. In addition to the internalization of norms, social control, rational calculation, and rational acceptance, this paper analyzes the role of information in regard to compliance with norms. We predict that people will cooperate if they believe that others will cooperate as well, and that they will defect if they believe that others will defect. Each reaction respresents a rational course of action. Beliefs about the validity of norms are influenced by information, whether public (as obtained from the media) or private (gained from personal experience), with which individuals update their beliefs. Complementing existing explanations of norm compliance, this paper studies the effect on norm compliance of information which allows individuals to adjust beliefs about whether a norm is valid. The empirical findings based on a multilevel analysis of survey data from 24 countries strongly confirm the prediction that collectively held beliefs about the validity of norms are a major factor in determining compliance, comparable in its strength to the internalization of norms.Keywords: Beliefs; Social Norms; Deviant Behavior; Information; Reciprocity.Zusammenfassung: Soziale Normen helfen bei der Lçsung von kollektiven Dilemmata. Zusätzlich zu den Erklärungs-faktoren Internalisierung, soziale Kontrolle, rationales Kalkül und rationale Akzeptanz analysiert dieser Aufsatz den Effekt von Informationen auf die Befolgung von Normen. Individuen, so wird argumentiert, befolgen soziale Normen, solange sie überzeugt sind, dass die Norm gültig ist, d. h. sich auch alle anderen daran halten. Wenn die Norm hingegen nicht mehr als gültig angesehen wird und das Individuum nicht mehr von die Gültigkeit der Norm überzeugt ist, wird es die Norm missachten. Beide Reaktionen lassen sich als Ergebnis einer rationalen Wahl auffassen. Überzeugungen hinsichtlich der Gültigkeit von Normen werden durch Informationen beeinflusst, und zwar sowohl durch çffentliche Informationen (etwa aus den Medien) als auch durch private Erfahrungen. Individuen korrigieren und aktualisieren ihre Überzeugungen hinsichtlich der Gültigkeit von Normen auf der Grundlage dieser Informationen. In Ergänzung der vorliegenden Ansätze zur Erklärung von Normbefolgung testet dieser Aufsatz die Relevanz von Informationen. Die empirischen Ergebnisse zeigen basierend auf einer Mehrebenenanalyse von Umfragedaten aus 24 Ländern eine starke Evidenz dafür, dass die gesellschaftliche Verbreitung von Überzeugungen hinsichtlich der Gültigkeit von Normen ein wichtiger Faktor für ihre Befolgung sind, der in seiner Stärke mit dem Effekt der Internalisierung von Normen vergleichbar ist.

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

Cited by 43 publications

References 34 publications

Surfing alone? The internet and social capital: Evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake

Surfing alone? The internet and social capital: Evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake

Offline effects of online connecting: the impact of broadband diffusion on teen fertility decisions

Cosi fan tutte: Information, Beliefs, and Compliance with Norms

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