During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This … paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young … people's internet access across gender, caste, religion, rural-urban sector, private-public schools, and income group. Our …

How does the internet affect young people's mental health? We study this question in the context of Italy using … combine with information on the availability of highspeed internet at the municipal level. Our identification strategy … previously irrelevant but became salient after the advent of the internet. We find that access to high-speed internet has a …

interactive experiments via the Internet is adequate and reliable, making online interactive experimentation a valuable complement …

disrupts our sleep with detrimental effects on our health and cognitive performance. High-speed Internet promotes the use of … electronic devices, video games and Internet addiction (e.g., online games and cyberloafing). Exposure to artificial light from … relationship between technology use near bedtime and sleep. This paper studies the causal effects of access to high-speed Internet …

The spread of high-speed Internet epitomizes the digital revolution, affecting several aspects of our life. Using … German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband Internet influences fertility choices in a low …. (2014) to obtain causal estimates of the impact of broadband on fertility. We find positive effects of high-speed Internet …

We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret …

We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006 …-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use of the internet as a search tool. During … this period, household access to the internet was almost completely dependent on connection to a particular technology (DSL …

. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the …-out of high-speed internet. The results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months of …

We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical … infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The actual speed of an Internet connection, in fact, rapidly decays with the distance … Internet caused a significant decline in forms of offline interaction and civic engagement. Overall, our results suggest that …