We examine the effect of internet diffusion on the uptake of an important public health intervention: the measles …, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. We study England between 2000 and 2011 when internet diffusion spread rapidly and there was … a high profile medical article (falsely) linking the MMR vaccine to autism. OLS estimates suggest internet diffusion led …

We empirically study the effects of broadband internet diffusion on local election outcomes and on local government … policies using rich data from the U.K. Our analysis suggests that the internet has displaced other media with greater news …

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 …

We empirically study the effects of broadband internet diffusion on local election outcomes and on local government … policies using rich data from the U.K. Our analysis suggests that the internet has displaced other media with greater news …

We empirically study the effects of broadband internet diffusion on local election outcomes and on local government … policies using rich data from the U.K. Our analysis suggests that the internet has displaced other media with greater news …

We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We … exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors …. We show that broadband internet access increased Cesarean-sections: mothers living in areas with better internet access …

We empirically study the effects of broadband internet diffusion on local election outcomes and on local government … policies using rich data from the U.K. Our analysis suggests that the internet has displaced other media with greater news …