We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical … infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The actual speed of an Internet connection, in fact, rapidly decays with the distance … Internet caused a significant decline in forms of offline interaction and civic engagement. Overall, our results suggest that …

examine whether labour market conditions affect fitness. Running times improve during recessions for men and women aged 50 and … above but worsen for men aged 20-49 and women aged 20-29, suggesting that the fall in the opportunity costs of fitness …

average, children's homophily acts as a complement to the educational effort of highly educated parents but as a substitute … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus …

Social networks are a key factor of success in life, but they are also strongly segmented on gender, ethnicity, and … other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily, namely … about how these traits are associated to social networks. Based on unique data that we collected using incentivized …