Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … adoption of broadband internet in firms. Our results suggest that broadband internet improves (worsens) the labor outcomes and … internet. We find suggestive evidence that broadband adoption in firms complements skilled workers in executing nonroutine …

The COVID-19 pandemic initiated a trend in "work-from-home (WFH)," but workers need reliable and fast internet … cooperatives from building their own broadband infrastructure and/or providing broadband internet to their communities. Such …

an earnings-weighted basis. In view of this projection, we consider some implications of home internet access quality …, exploiting data from the new Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Moving to high-quality, fully reliable home internet …. Our survey data also say that subjective well-being was higher during the pandemic for people with better home internet …

observe $39 billion of total revenue in Internet access in 2006, with broadband accounting for $28 billion of this total … surplus, which is not measured via Gross Domestic Product (GDP). An Internet-access Consumer Price Index (CPI) would have to …

taxes would have had on broadband Internet access at an early stage of its diffusion around the country, combining data on …

We investigate the causal impact of broadband Internet on political participation using data from Italy. We show that … emergence of new political entrepreneurs who used the Internet to convert the initial "exit" back into "voice". Overall, these … nuanced effects underscore the general equilibrium dynamic induced by the Internet …

Between 2000 and 2008, access to high-speed, broadband internet grew significantly in the United States, but there is … debate on whether access to high-speed internet improves or harms wellbeing. We find that a ten percent increase in the … proportion of county residents with access to broadband internet leads to a 1.01 percent reduction in the number of suicides in a …

High-speed internet has increased the amount of information available in health care markets. Online information may … providers to improve quality. We examine how health outcomes for common procedures in Medicare changed after broadband internet …