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We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We … exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors …. We show that broadband internet access increased Cesarean-sections: mothers living in areas with better internet access …
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We examine the effect of internet diffusion on the uptake of an important public health intervention: the measles …, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. We study England between 2000 and 2011 when internet diffusion spread rapidly and there was … a high profile medical article (falsely) linking the MMR vaccine to autism. OLS estimates suggest internet diffusion led …
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Central features of today's electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision of content and services, two-sided business models that partly involve indirect...
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We conduct an experiment where subjects read online news articles and are shown ads for brands next to those articles. Using eye-tracking technology, we measure the attention that each individual devotes to each article and ad. Then, respondents choose between cash or vouchers for the brands...
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Over the last years, several reports highlighted the market power of very large online platforms that are gatekeeping intermediaries between businesses and consumers, and the difficulty for classic competition policy tools to deal effectively with anti-competitive practices in these platforms....
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We empirically study the effects of broadband internet diffusion on local election outcomes and on local government … policies using rich data from the U.K. Our analysis suggests that the internet has displaced other media with greater news …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011749969
We empirically study the effects of broadband internet diffusion on local election outcomes and on local government … policies using rich data from the U.K. Our analysis suggests that the internet has displaced other media with greater news …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011746593
The "net neutrality" principle has triggered a heated debate and advocates have proposed policy interventions. In this paper, we provide perspective by framing issues in terms of the positive economic factors at work. We stress the incentives of market participants, and highlight the economic...
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We empirically study the effects of broadband internet diffusion on local election outcomes and on local government … policies using rich data from the U.K. Our analysis suggests that the internet has displaced other media with greater news …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945289
We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We … exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors …. We show that broadband internet access increased Cesarean-sections: mothers living in areas with better internet access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425638