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 …

interactive experiments via the Internet is adequate and reliable, making online interactive experimentation a valuable complement …

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 …

We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …

. 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 …

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 …