What are the political consequences of the diffusion of broadband internet? We address this question by studying the … 2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawing on data from the … FEC and the FCC, we provide robust evidence that internet penetration in US counties is associated with an increase in …

Broadband infrastructure enables fast access to the internet, which, evidence suggests, has significant effects on … subsidization of broadband internet infrastructure. …

This paper shows that having access to a fast Internet connection is an important determinant of capitalization effects … average property from a high-speed first-generation broadband connection (offering Internet speed up to 8 Mbit/s) would …

Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This …