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How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in …
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Senegal has experienced a rapid expansion in fixed and mobile broadband Internet infrastructure over the past decade …. This paper examines the relationship between access to broadband internet and household welfare between 2011 and 2018 by …
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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 …
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. 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 …
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Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic monitoring is based on crowdsourcing roaming GPS devices such as cars or cell phones. These systems...
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A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
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interactive experiments via the Internet is adequate and reliable, making online interactive experimentation a valuable complement …
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minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that …
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We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret …
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We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …
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