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 …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …

This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative …

the question of whether high-speed internet leads to higher/lower sex crime offences and murder. I use unique German data … on criminal offences and broadband internet measured at the municipality level to shed light on the question. In order to … address endogeneity in broadband internet availability, I follow Falck et al. (2014) and exploit technical peculiarities at …

. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the …-out of high-speed internet. The results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months of …

internet use in Germany. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use the exact weekly duration of internet use … to explain inequalities in internet intensity, explicitly controlling for non-users. Secondly, we use the frequencies of … five different internet applications to further investigate the determinants of the second-level digital divide. Thirdly …

noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills and Internet availability at home are negatively associated with the … education vanishes for males once we control for additional characteristics such as occupations, professional Internet use and …

. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the …-out of high-speed internet. The results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months of …