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 …

new direction in 2001 when anyone with access to the Internet could obtain individual information on income, wealth, and … to the shift to the Internet in 2001, some municipalities had exposure which was close to the Internet type of public … increase in reported income is found among business owners living in areas where the switch to Internet disclosure represented …

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 individual-level 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 …