technological feature of the telecommunication infrastructure that generated substantial variation in the quality of Internet access … social capital from 1997 to 2017, we show that access to fast Internet caused a significant decline in civic and political …

systematically worsened with the rise of the internet and its intermediaries. Evidence on changing distributions of income is …

We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We … exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors …. We show that broadband internet access increased Cesarean-sections: mothers living in areas with better internet access …

anti-government attitudes. On the contrary, cell phone and internet penetration and usage correlate with greater …