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 …

A great deal of late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as eBay, which employ a second price auction … with a fixed deadline. Much less late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as those run by Amazon, which … the different ending rules under controlled conditions, without the other differences between internet auction houses that …

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 …

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 individuallevel 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 …