This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in … Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did … not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received laptops without internet. We find that providing free internet access …

and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information … contrast to previous experimental studies, we find that smartvote did not affect turnout but that voters more actively select …

complexity of memory measured using Shannon’s mutual information, as in models of rational inattention; but our theory differs …

We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location … and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy … plays must first boom and then bust. For both renewable and non-renewable energy sources we link the size of exploitation …

development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density … countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy …

2013, including detailed energy consumption and household income and tax payment characteristics. While the theoretical … find a positive mark-up of 49%, in our data. This suggests that, in practice, the government is concerned with energy …