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19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the idea that Internet access is important in the formation of ICT … skills, and we implement instrumental-variable models that leverage exogenous variation in Internet availability across …. Placebo estimations show that exogenous Internet availability cannot explain numeracy or literacy skills, suggesting that our …
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Broadband (high-speed) internet access expanded rapidly from 1999 to 2007. This expansion is associated with higher … broadband internet on teen fertility as well as the mechanisms underlying this effect. Our results suggest that increased … teens make. Specifically, we look at the relationship between increased broadband access and teen fertility. We hypothesize …
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requires "equal" treatment for all Internet traffic, should be considered only as a means of improving broadband rather than as …Because broadband is widely believed to be a precondition for economic prosperity and social progress, many governments … have been improving the broadband environments in their respective countries. Net neutrality, which in its most basic form …
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Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social...
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