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 …

children's pre-registration period in Spain. In order to do that, we designed an internet field experiment to be conducted in …

. 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 …