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 …

percentage points increase in internet penetration rates. This is a huge increase, meaning that the deployment of these cables … has almost doubled the penetration of Internet in the sub-continent’s population. On the other hand, exogenous sources of … internet and mobile penetration rates, to lower investments in ICTs, and to increase mobile-cellular tariffs and the wireline …

We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017, using data on electoral … outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 84,564 municipalities of 22 European countries. We find that access to mobile … Internet increased voters’ support for right-wing populist parties and for parties running on extreme socially conservative …