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We compare outcomes obtained by sellers who listed their home on a newly developed For-Sale-By-Owner (FSBO) web site versus those who used an agent and the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). We do not find support for the hypothesis that listing on the MLS helps sellers obtain a significantly...
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The rapid rise in sales over the Internet has generated debate over the taxation of such transactions since the buyers … the effects that local sales taxes have on Internet commerce. The results show that, controlling for many observable … characteristics, people who live in locations with high sales taxes are significantly more likely to buy things over the Internet. The …
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The effect of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines is analyzed using differentiated product demand models estimated on panel data that cover the period 1990 2000. Descriptive evidence on the magazines' website contents suggests that websites are used to provide...
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During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This … paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young … people's internet access across gender, caste, religion, rural-urban sector, private-public schools, and income group. Our …
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How does the internet affect young people's mental health? We study this question in the context of Italy using … combine with information on the availability of highspeed internet at the municipal level. Our identification strategy … previously irrelevant but became salient after the advent of the internet. We find that access to high-speed internet has a …
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I study the impact of online instruction on teaching evaluations at a higher education institution in Spain. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I show that in the semester when teaching moved online, female lecturers were evaluated more poorly than in previous semesters. The performance...
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Internet and communications investment in schools starting in 1998. The program subsidized spending by 20-90 percent, depending … Internet investment. The implied first-dollar price elasticity of demand for Internet investment is between -0.9 and -2.2 and … about 66 percent more Internet classrooms than there would have been without the subsidy. Using a variety of test score …
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interactive experiments via the Internet is adequate and reliable, making online interactive experimentation a valuable complement …
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Ad blockers allow Internet users to obtain information without generating ad revenue for site owners; and by 2016 they …
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disrupts our sleep with detrimental effects on our health and cognitive performance. High-speed Internet promotes the use of … electronic devices, video games and Internet addiction (e.g., online games and cyberloafing). Exposure to artificial light from … relationship between technology use near bedtime and sleep. This paper studies the causal effects of access to high-speed Internet …
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