Television on Women’s Empowerment in India.
We used a nationwide demographic survey to study the relation between television exposure and women’s empowerment in India. Ordinary least squares (OLS) results suggested that TV exposure improved Indian women’s status. We used the propensity score matching (PSM) method to mitigate the potential thr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 50; no. 11; pp. 1523 - 1538 |
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