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 …

examined and that there are differences over time. The regression results show that the use of computers for internet access …

. 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 …

Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … technology by adopting broadband internet. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and provides … comparison, broadband internet is a substitute for workers without high school diploma, lowering their marginal productivity …