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This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical foundations, in which we regress Internet usage on variables that capture social, economic and political...
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chapter explores changes over the period 1997–2008 in homework time for U.S. children in 1st through 12th grade when homework …
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bodies responsible for safeguarding children, is the advent of social media, or online social networking. This research … explores the effect of children's digital social networking on their subjective wellbeing. We use a large representative sample … spent chatting on social websites on a number of outcomes which reflect how these children feel about different aspects of …
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Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...
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In the past few decades, technological progress has led to the digitization and digitalization of economies into what one could now call digital economies. The COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the development of the digital economy. In a digital economy, digital entrepreneurs pursue...
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Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology adoption. In this experiment, farmers were invited to information sessions about the use of Tissue Culture Banana (TCB), an in vitro banana cultivation technology. We find that an...
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We study the role of social learning in the diffusion of cash crops in a resettled village economy in northeastern Brazil. We combine detailed geo-coded data on farming plots with dyadic data on social ties among settlers, and we leverage natural exogenous variation in network formation induced...
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This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high …-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics of friends affect the labor-market outcomes of children …. While parental friendships formed in high school appear long lasting, we find no significant impact on their children …
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The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent … estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the educational attainment of children from such marriages. We find that … children from Moluccan fathers and native mothers have a higher educational attainment than children from ethnic homogeneous …
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Dutch faced in 1846-47. The individual data are from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands and are augmented by food …
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