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 …

This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing … firms over the period 2011-2013. Instrumental variables estimates show that internet adoption: (i) increases firms' labor …

Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research … online education affects the number of people pursuing formal education. We study the Georgia Institute of Technology …'s Online M.S. in Computer Science, the earliest model to combine the inexpensive nature of online education with a highly …

This paper analyzes two business practices on the mobile internet market, paid prioritization and zero-rating. Both … violate the principle of net neutrality by allowing the internet service provider to discriminate different content types. In …

We empirically study the effects of broadband internet diffusion on local election outcomes and on local government … policies using rich data from the U.K. Our analysis suggests that the internet has displaced other media with greater news …

broadband policy increased overall Internet and broadband take-up among private households …