The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number … country level. Finally, we construct the first index of corruption in US cities and study its correlates. -- Internet …

changes in an emerging market like India. Emerging markets have low internet penetration and high information asymmetry with a …We examine whether internet search intensity, as captured by Google’s Search Volume Index (SVI), predicts house price … dominant unorganized real estate market. Like in developed markets such as the US, we find that internet search intensity …

diffusion of internet access in the late 1990?s. Which types of persons incorporated the internet into their job search strategy … internet job search derived from the December 1998 and August 2000 CPS Computer and Internet Supplements, matched with job … search outcomes from subsequent CPS files. We find that internet searchers are positively selected on observables, but …

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables and fixed effect estimates show that internet use is associated … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on …

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 …

diffusion of internet access in the late 1990's. Which types of persons incorporated the internet into their job search strategy … internet job search derived from the December 1998 and August 2000 CPS Computer and Internet Supplements, matched with job … search outcomes from subsequent CPS files. We find that internet searchers are positively selected on observables, but …

This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data … on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet …