Using new measures of expanded Internet access in China and internet-based search, we examine how competitive shocks … innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of … Chinese industry peers to gather knowledge through the internet are followed by reductions in U.S. R&D investment and …

This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in … Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did … not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received laptops without internet. We find that providing free internet access …

We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced internet technology and the geographic concentration of … the early 2000s. Second, we compare the extent of invention in counties that were leaders in internet adoption to those … that were not. We see little difference in the growth rate of patenting between leaders and laggards in internet adoption …

Ad blockers allow Internet users to obtain information without generating ad revenue for site owners; and by 2016 they …

This paper measures the role of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on an individual's ability to self-isolate during … to stay at home, the unequal diffusion of high-speed Internet in homes across regions drives much of this observed income …-income or high-speed Internet are less likely to leave their homes after such a directive. However, the combination of having …

an earnings-weighted basis. In view of this projection, we consider some implications of home internet access quality …, exploiting data from the new Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Moving to high-quality, fully reliable home internet …. Our survey data also say that subjective well-being was higher during the pandemic for people with better home internet …

value of online activity, both men and women in our sample dramatically increased their internet browsing during the …