We use high frequency internet search data to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources …-centered online learning resources had roughly doubled relative to baseline. Areas of the country with higher income, better internet … could improve the effectiveness of education policy responses to the pandemic. The public availability of internet search …

Google search rates for a racial epithet. As a benchmark of accurate hate crime data, it uses two alternative definitions of … crimes with African-American victims on Google searches and other relevant variables over 2004-2015 at the state-year level … for each group of benchmark states. Adding the Google search rate for the epithet substantially enhances the capacity of …

internet as a primary information source for many people have created a new approach to keep track of peopleś interests. The … major gateways to the internetś information are the so-called search engines, and Google, arguably the most commonly used … voters and the German party system as an example. We find that using data provided by Google Trends can lead to a variety of …

Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two …

Ranking algorithms are the information gatekeepers of the Internet era. We develop a stylized framework to study the …

We develop uncertainty indices for the United States and Australia based on freely accessible, real time Google Trends … data. Our Google Trends Uncertainty (GTU) indices are found to be positively correlated to a variety of alternative proxies …