Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This …

by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary …

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 individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects … several dimensions of social capital. One identification strategy uses panel information to estimate value-added models. A …

broadband policy increased overall Internet and broadband take-up among private households. …

We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring …

We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical … infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The actual speed of an Internet connection, in fact, rapidly decays with the distance … of the dwelling from the specific node of the network serving its area. Merging unique information about the topology of …

-producing firms in the UK (which the UK government refers to as the "information economy"). Exploiting a combination of public …