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Mobile Internet Access and the Desire to Emigrate

Harm Adema, Joop Age; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022

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 …-middle-income countries. In line with our theory, an important mechanism appears to be that access to the mobile internet lowers the cost of …

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Fighting Mobile Crime

Crinò, Rosario - 2019

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back....

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The Dynastic Transmission of Power, Exit Options and the Coevolution of Rent-Seeking Elites

Silve, Arthur; Verdier, Thierry - 2023

We introduce a dynamic model that investigates the persistence and evolution of elite-dominated societies, where … exit options in the evolution of political inclusiveness across generations. An elite comparatively more mobile than the … encourage inclusiveness. Under certain conditions differential mobility may still induce political inclusiveness across …

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Impact of Roaming Regulation on Revenues and Prices of Mobile Operators in the EU

Grzybowski, Lukasz; Munoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2021

We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators’ average revenues per user (ARPU) and retail prices. Using a differences-in-difference approach, hedonic price regressions and detailed operator and plan-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile...

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Narrowing the 'Digital Divide' : The Role of Complementarities between Fixed and Mobile Data in South Africa

Hawthorne, Ryan - 2019

We study substitution between fixed and mobile broadband services in South Africa using survey data on 134,000 individuals between 2009 and 2014. In our discrete-choice model, individuals choose fixed or mobile voice and data services in a framework that allows them to be substitutes or...

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Benefits of Regulation vs. Competition Where Inequality is High : The Case of Mobile Telephony in South Africa

Hawthorne, Ryan - 2019

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly unequal country, South Africa. Using six waves of a consumer survey of over 134,000 individuals between 2009-2014, we estimate a discrete-choice model allowing for...

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When Nudges Fail to Scale : Field Experimental Evidence from Goal Setting on Mobile Phones

Löschel, Andreas - 2020

Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology (“nudges”) have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...

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The Welfare Effects of Mobile Internet Access - Evidence from Roam-Like-At-Home

Quinn, Martin; Matos, Miguel Godinho de; Peukert, Christian - 2022

We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing the mobile internet for EU residents when traveling abroad in the European Economic Area. Estimates from individual-level usage data suggest that consumer surplus increased by...

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Mobile Internet and the Rise of Political Tribalism in Europe

Manacorda, Marco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico; Tesei, Andrea - 2022

We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017, using data on electoral outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 84,564 municipalities of 22 European countries. We find that access to mobile Internet increased voters’ support for right-wing...

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The role of higher education institutions : recruitment of elites and economic growth

Brezis, Elise S.; Crouzet, François - 2004

The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites and to investigate the nature of the links between recruitment of elites and economic growth. The main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their...

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