Unresolved regulatory issues, particularly those relating to interconnection agreements, hamper progress in Internet …

Unresolved regulatory issues, particularly those relating to interconnection agreements, hamper progress in Internet … and its effects on telecommunications development and Internet penetration in Latin America. Relying on data from the … International Telecommunication Union, the Information for Development Program (InfoDev), and the World Bank for 1990-99, the …

development and Internet penetration in Latin America. Relying on data from the International Telecommunication Union, the … determinants of the differences in Internet penetration rates across Latin America. The results show that effective implementation … of the reform agenda in telecommunications regulation could accelerate adoption of the Internet in Latin America …

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 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 …