technological feature of the telecommunication infrastructure that generated substantial variation in the quality of Internet access … across households. The speed of a domestic connection rapidly decays with the distance of a user’s line from the network’s … social capital from 1997 to 2017, we show that access to fast Internet caused a significant decline in civic and political …

than being based on stationary operators masts. Internet Service Providers traditionally rely on Border Gateway Protocols … Internet Periphery Analysis, pointing towards the roles of existing traffic peering agreements among the Internet Service …

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 …

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 …

How does the internet affect young people's mental health? We study this question in the context of Italy using … combine with information on the availability of highspeed internet at the municipal level. Our identification strategy … previously irrelevant but became salient after the advent of the internet. We find that access to high-speed internet has a …