study addresses the question whether the emergence of broadband internet influences economic and social development. The … results indicate that broadband internet indeed positively affects a number of economically and socially meaningful variables …. To address concerns a reverse causality and omitted variables and to identify causal effects of broadband internet …

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. …

development of the Internet into a high-speed communications network. In the absence of ubiquitous, high-speed ¡°broadband …¡± Internet connections for residential and small-business customers, the demand for IT equipment and new Internet service …

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. …