To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density …

Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We …Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … factors associated with computer and Internet penetration do not differ substantially between developed and developing …

discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the …

as a function of individual and household characteristics using panel data analysis and compares three alternate … approaches; a static, chamberlain-mundlak and dynamic specification. Using panel data from 1994 to 2000, we consider whether …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …

The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of …. This paper empirically examines the implications of Internet diffusion in the United States since the 1990s on one aspect … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …

With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper …

This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative …

While the Internet has been found to reduce trading frictions in a number of other markets, existing research has … found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with longer unemployment durations in 1998/2000 – using comparable data … about 25 percent. This finding is robust to controls for workers' AFQT scores and detailed indicators of Internet access …