Chan, Jason; Ghose, Anindya; Seamans, Robert - NET Institute - 2013
The Internet has had profound effects on society, both positive and negative. In this paper we examine the effect of … the Internet on a negative spillover: hate crime. In order to better understand the link, we study the extent to which … broadband availability affects racial hatecrimes in the US from 1999 – 2008. To address measurement error, we instrument for …