We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel … telephony and computers. -- broadband ; high-speed internet ; technology diffusion ; economic growth …

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 …

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use is associated with a … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on …