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 … second exploits a quasi-experiment in East Germany created by a mistaken technology choice of the state …

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 … unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by exploiting technological peculiarities in the network that affected the roll …-out of high-speed internet. The results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months of …