"With our modern world relying more and more on Internet-based technologies, this timely book takes a renewed look at the ever-increasing digital divide between developing and more technologically advanced countries and the resulting impacts on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

The internet enables the media to initially post and change articles at any time. I compare this situation to one in which news can only be released once. I determine the editorial standard, a cutoff for how confident a firm must be to post an article. If changing a story is costly, the firm's...

In this paper, we present theory and global evidence on how mobile internet access affects desire and plans to emigrate. Our theory predicts that mobile internet access increases desire and plans to emigrate. Our empirical analysis combines survey data on 617,402 individuals from 2,120...

In der vorliegenden Studie werden auf der Basis einer Befragung mit 1.158 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern die Travel Journeys von Digital Natives und Digital Immigrants verglichen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen unter anderem, dass die digitalen Touchpoints sowohl für die Digital Natives als auch für...

In this article, we measure the relationship between various types of the Internet use, digital divide and the social capital of users. We use panel data from a Russian longitudinal monitoring survey for 2012-2018. Fixed effect logit model is applied. The results of the regression show that the...

How does mobile internet access affect the desire to emigrate and migration plans? To answer this question, we combine survey data on more than 600,000 individuals from 110 countries with data on worldwide 3G mobile internet rollout. We show that an increase in mobile internet access increases...