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Do people value more informative news?
Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2019
We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news. Drawing on representative samples of the U.S. population with more than 15,000 respondents in total, we measure and experimentally vary people's beliefs about the...
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Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks : Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time
Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Goodman, Joshua S.; Mulhern, Christine - 2020
We use high frequency internet search data to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources as schools closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. By April 2020, nationwide search intensity for both school- and parent-centered online learning resources had roughly doubled...
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Do children benefit from internet access? : experimental evidence from Peru
Malamud, Ofer; Cueto, Santiago; Cristia, Julian; … - 2018
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...
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Mistaking noise for bias : victimhood and Hutu-Tutsi reconciliation in East Africa
Blouin, Arthur; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2022
intent of individuals (bias). This "victimhood bias" wherein individuals ascribe noise to bias is much larger for (a … observe that both inter-ethnic contact and economic development are associated with a decline in this victimhood bias. Finally …, those with a lower victimhood bias are more likely to behave cooperatively in inter-ethnic rela-tionships. Our results …
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Streaming platform and strategic recommendation bias
Bourreau, Marc; Gaudin, Germain - 2018
We consider a streaming platform which carries content from various upstream content providers. Participating customers face personalized recommendations from the platform and consume a mix of content originating from each provider. We analyze when the platform uses its personalized...
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Implicit preferences inferred from choice
Cunningham, Tom; De Quidt, Jonathan - 2016 - Preliminary draft
A longstanding distinction in psychology is between implicit and explicit preferences. Implicit preferences are ordinarily measured by observing non-choice data, such as response time. In this paper we introduce a method for inferring implicit preferences directly from choices. The necessary...
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Regulation and internet access in Germany
Reutter, Michael - 2001
We explain the recent events in the German market for online access using a model of a regulated monopoly renting phone lines to retailers. Retailers offer either a linear or a flat tariff to consumers. Consumer heterogeneity leads to adverse selectiion. We show why market entry for flatrate...
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Net neutrality and internet fragmentation : the role of online advertising
D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2015 - This version: July 2015
We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers' attention to advertisers. Under Net Neutrality, a...
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Investment in broadband infrastructure under local deregulation : evidence from the UK broadband market
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - 2013
This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...
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Speed 2.0 : evaluating access to universal digital highways
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Koutroumpis, Pantelis; Valetti, … - 2015
This paper shows that having access to a fast Internet connection is an important determinant of capitalization effects in property markets. Our empirical strategy combines a boundary discontinuity design with controls for time-invariant effects and arbitrary macro-economic shocks at a very...
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