Seminar: Effects of children's TV
Evidence from the Italian transition to digital TV
Dr Luca Facchinello from Singapore Management University will be joining us by Zoom on Friday 5 June at 12:00 noon AEST, offering insights in his research seminar ‘Effects of Children's TV: Evidence from the Italian Transition to Digital TV’.
When Italy transitioned from analog to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), several children-specific channels became freely available to the whole population, marking the start of public Children Television. In this paper I study how exposure to the new television regime affected students’ educational achievement, non-cognitive skills and behavior. To identify the reduced-form effects of exposure and differential exposure to Children TV, I exploit the staggered implementation of the DTT reform, carried out from 2008 to 2012, in a difference-in-difference analysis. My data includes administrative school information, standardized test scores and survey responses for the universe of Italian students attending compulsory school from 2010 to 2017. Preliminary results show that exposure to Children TV does not affect educational performance, school motivation or preferences for education of Italian students, at any grade. Students exposed to Children Television instead experience a reduction in physical bullying in elementary school, possibly explained by reduced exposure to violence in general TV. Future analysis will explore heterogeneity in the treatment effect, and exploit commercial TV data to investigate consumption patterns and estimate actual treatment effects.
Luca is an assistant professor at the School of Economics, Singapore Management University. He received his Ph.D. at the Stockholm School of Economics in 2016. His research interests are in the economics of education, labor economics, and the economics of aging.
CHE seminar series
At the Centre for Health Economics, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!
Event Details
- Date:
- 5 June 2020 at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Venue:
- This seminar will take place via Zoom - please email shannon.stanwell@monash.edu to register
- Categories:
- Health Economics
Description
Evidence from the Italian transition to digital TV
Dr Luca Facchinello from Singapore Management University will be joining us by Zoom on Friday 5 June at 12:00 noon AEST, offering insights in his research seminar ‘Effects of Children's TV: Evidence from the Italian Transition to Digital TV’.
When Italy transitioned from analog to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), several children-specific channels became freely available to the whole population, marking the start of public Children Television. In this paper I study how exposure to the new television regime affected students’ educational achievement, non-cognitive skills and behavior. To identify the reduced-form effects of exposure and differential exposure to Children TV, I exploit the staggered implementation of the DTT reform, carried out from 2008 to 2012, in a difference-in-difference analysis. My data includes administrative school information, standardized test scores and survey responses for the universe of Italian students attending compulsory school from 2010 to 2017. Preliminary results show that exposure to Children TV does not affect educational performance, school motivation or preferences for education of Italian students, at any grade. Students exposed to Children Television instead experience a reduction in physical bullying in elementary school, possibly explained by reduced exposure to violence in general TV. Future analysis will explore heterogeneity in the treatment effect, and exploit commercial TV data to investigate consumption patterns and estimate actual treatment effects.
Luca is an assistant professor at the School of Economics, Singapore Management University. He received his Ph.D. at the Stockholm School of Economics in 2016. His research interests are in the economics of education, labor economics, and the economics of aging.
CHE seminar series
At the Centre for Health Economics, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!