Tweet Sixteen and Pregnant: Missing Links in the Causal Chain from Reality TV to Fertility. A replication study of Kearney & Levine (American Economic Review, 2015)

Tweet Sixteen and Pregnant: Missing Links in the Causal Chain from Reality TV to Fertility. A replication study of Kearney & Levine (American Economic Review, 2015)

We replicate and extend the analysis of the positive association between social media (Google searches and tweets) and the MTV program 16 and Pregnant recently published by Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine (2015). We find that the relationship disappears or even turns negative when we include in t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: David A. Jaeger, Theodore J. Joyce, Robert Kaestner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ZBW 2019-01-01
Series:International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics
Subjects:
social media
fertility
birth control
abortion
16 and pregnant
event study
replication study
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18718/81781.10

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https://doi.org/10.18718/81781.10

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