This paper documents the effects of home-country Internet expansion on immigrants' health and subjective well …-being (SWB). Combining data on SWB and health from the European Social Survey (ESS) with data on 3G and overall Internet … expansion (ITU and Collins Batholomew), I find that immigrants' SWB and health increase following home-country Internet …

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 …

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 …