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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro'ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197560
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What Drives Demand for Government-Controlled News? Evidence from Russia
Simonov, Andrey - 2020
News consumers in many authoritarian countries read government-controlled sources even when independent sources are available. We test whether these choices reflect a preference for pro-government coverage versus persistent tastes for specific websites. We exploit textual data from news...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853636
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Virus Shook the Streaming Star : Estimating the COVID-19 Impact on Music Consumption
Sim, Jaeung; Cho, Daegon; Hwang, Youngdeok; Telang, Rahul - 2021
Many have speculated that the recent outbreak of COVID-19 has led to a surge in the use of online streaming services. However, this assumption has not been closely examined for music streaming services, the consumption patterns of which can be different from video streaming services. To provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217827
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro’ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186450
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro'ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193273
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The Effect of Internet Piracy on Cd Sales : Cross-Section Evidence
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2021
-country evidence in support of the claim of losses due to internet piracy made by the music industry. For the U.S. we also assess the … potential loss from internet piracy using detailed survey data. We conclude the empirical analysis by forecasting CD sales for … 2002. The results suggest that internet piracy played a significant role in the decline in CD sales in 2001, but can hardly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319489
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The Persuasive Effect of Fox News : Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Simonov, Andrey; Sacher, Szymon; Dubé, Jean-Pierre; … - 2021
To what extent do mass media outlets influence viewers' trust in scientific evidence and compliance with behavior recommended by scientific experts? Exploiting the US lock-down period of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, we analyze a large longitudinal database that combines daily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219941
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Technology transfer and the Internet: a chance for outsiders at public science to get into the business?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2001
The Internet is receiving increasing attention as a medium for technology transfer between public research and the … determinants of firm contacts established via the Internet. Special attention is paid to the effect of experiences in firm … interaction in the past. Econometric estimation results suggest that Internet contact to firms is more likely to be established by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297791
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Market Consequences of ICT Innovations
Mang, Constantin - 2016
on the effects of broadband Internet on the housing market in order to quantify the value of broadband access in terms of …. Chapter 5 investigates the effects of a mobile Internet infrastructure upgrade on the take-up of location-based online … Internet infrastructure increases the number of restaurant reviews and the share of reviews written on smartphones. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698360
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Online Job Search and Matching Quality
Mang, Constantin - 2012
The Internet has fundamentally changed the way workers and firms are matched on the job market. Compared to newspapers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312149