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 …

interventions on final-use energy consumption, an important driver of carbon emissions. In the model, energy demand is driven by … directed technical change. Energy supply is subject to increasing extraction costs. The model is consistent with aggregate … evidence on energy use, efficiency, and prices in the United States, as well as the standard balanced growth facts. I use the …

2013, including detailed energy consumption and household income and tax payment characteristics. While the theoretical … find a positive mark-up of 49%, in our data. This suggests that, in practice, the government is concerned with energy …

copies provide information about the originals may be useful for the analysis of digital music copying. …

and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information … contrast to previous experimental studies, we find that smartvote did not affect turnout but that voters more actively select …

The new information and communication technology, ICT, induces households to take over tasks from firms and government …

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi-experimental … variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in …