How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in …

How does the internet affect young people’s mental health? We study this question in the context of Italy using … combine with information on the availability of high-speed internet at the municipal level. Our identification strategy … previously irrelevant but became salient after the advent of the internet. We find that access to high-speed internet has a …

Millions of citizens and firms lack access to high speed internet, even though governmentspledged to spend huge sums of … money to subsidize internet networks. In this paper we reviewsome systematic flaws of present subsidy policies and outline a …

aid significantly increased broadband coverage. More importantly, we find that the number of internet providers has …

This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine …

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use is associated with a … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on …