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 … a premium on housing rents. Methodologically, the chapter uses micro data from Germany’s largest online platform for …. Chapter 5 investigates the effects of a mobile Internet infrastructure upgrade on the take-up of location-based online …