The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags … across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time scales from the micro to the macro level. The paper uses internet …

Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries … digital divide across socioeconomic groups and territories. This paper exploits data from harmonized household expenditure … surveys in seven countries in West Africa in 2018/19 - a subregion with one of the lowest levels of mobile internet …

We use data from Google Trends to predict the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on future births in the United States …. First, we show that periods of above-normal search volume for Google keywords relating to conception and pregnancy in US …-validation criteria. Third, we use data on Google searches during the COVID-19 pandemic to predict changes in aggregate fertility rates in …

exhibits a strong potential for the method used. -- Google ; internet ; keyword search ; search engine ; unemployment … of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose …

often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google … them against data from the labor market, the paper demonstrates that internet activity captures socioeconomic phenomena in … crisis ; recession ; bubble ; Google Insights …

I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate … Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the … Internet users, I think is a good proxy of the number of prospective home buyers for each prospective home seller in the pool …

through a popular vote. Using hourly Google Search data one week prior to the Irish Referendum of May 22 2015 and a simple … used here successfully for the second time and is so far as I know the only one which forecasts popular vote with Google …

We provide a nonparametric 'revealed preference' characterization of rational household behavior in terms of the … nature of consumption externalities (positive or negative) in the intra-household allocation process is non-testable. The …, monotonicity is testable for the model that assumes all household consumption is public. -- Collective model ; consumption ; Pareto …

This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households … household behavior in these models are subject to constraints that differ from the traditional Slutsky conditions. In addition …, in a certain number of specific cases, the preferences of the different household members can be identified from …