: The first is the widespread adoption of telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes … in ICT for urban structure. We find robust evidence that increases in the number of telephone lines per capita lead to a … activity in space. The evidence on internet usage is more speculative, although it goes in the same direction. This empirical …

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We …, telephone density, legal quality and banking sector development are associated with technology penetration rates. Overall, the …

socio-economic exclusion.Using OLS regression we find significant wage premiums for PC and internet usage at the workplace …

on the effects of broadband Internet on the housing market in order to quantify the value of broadband access in terms of …. Chapter 5 investigates the effects of a mobile Internet infrastructure upgrade on the take-up of location-based online … Internet infrastructure increases the number of restaurant reviews and the share of reviews written on smartphones. …