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 …

of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose …

The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags … across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time scales from the micro to the macro level. The paper uses internet … search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany …

for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …

tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …