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 …

. 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 …

Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries … surveys in seven countries in West Africa in 2018/19 — a subregion with one of the lowest levels of mobile internet … penetration in the world — to identify the main factors that limit mobile broadband internet adoption. Results show that low …

in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet? To respond to these questions, this …. Working age individuals living in areas covered by mobile internet witnessed an increase in labor force participation, wage …