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 …

19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the idea that Internet access is important in the formation of ICT … skills, and we implement instrumental-variable models that leverage exogenous variation in Internet availability across …. Placebo estimations show that exogenous Internet availability cannot explain numeracy or literacy skills, suggesting that our …

We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We … exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors …. We show that broadband internet access increased Cesarean-sections: mothers living in areas with better internet access …

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 …

We investigate the impact of early internet availability at basic speeds on local economic development in remote areas …-in-differences approach, we exploit submarine cable arrivals, which established countrywide internet connections, and the rollout of the … national backbones, which defines internet access within countries. Estimating on incidentally connected mid-sized towns, we …

survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections …, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank and manager characteristics by exploiting longitudinal information on bank …-manager appointments. We measure the extent? of managers' local connections by the distance between the province of the bank's headquarters …

.Our analysis is based on weekly observations for the 858 white collar workers hired by a large Italian bank between January 1993 … discuss how this evidence can be used to estimate what the absenteeism rate would be in Italy if employment protection were …

We investigate the role of banks information policies in fostering the accumulation of financial knowledge. In Italy …