This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across … institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption …-institution collaboration. IT exposure is measured by the number of years elapsed since an institution’s adoption of a domain name. Results …

and a unique rate of diffusion throughout the world. Suppose too that initially all countries are fairly closely bunched … together on each variable in fairly similar circumstances. Suppose, finally, that the geographic pattern of diffusion is the …

treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …, infertility, relatedness to the child, costs of own child birth, and any adoption-specific monetary return that is received net of …