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 … second exploits a quasi-experiment in East Germany created by a mistaken technology choice of the state …

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 …

We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …

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

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 … Internet caused a significant decline in forms of offline interaction and civic engagement. Overall, our results suggest that …

This paper advocates the use of Internet data for social sciences with a special focus on human resources issues. It … discusses the potentials and challenges of Internet data for social sciences and presents a selection of the relevant literature …. Internet data can successfully be applied to a very wide range of human resource issues including forecasting (e.g. of …