The proliferation of new information and communication technologies such as the Internet has arguably changed the way …, Internet use reduces information access costs but comes with trade-offs in terms of quality and credibility of information … sources. Limited evidence has been gathered on the behavioural consequences of new technologies such as the Internet on …

The emergence of the Internet made health information, which previously was almost exclusively available to health … professionals, accessible to the general public. Access to health information on the Internet is likely to affect individuals … Internet affects their demand for health care. I use a novel data set, the U.S. Health Information National Trends Survey (2003 …

This study estimates the effect of Internet health information on health care utilisation. The causal variable of … interest is a binary variable that indicates whether or not an individual has used the Internet to search for health … that, on average, using the Internet as health information source increases the utilisation of health care. The effect is …