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| Title: | | Surfing alone? The Internet and social capital ; evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake  |
| Authors: | | Bauernschuster, Stefan Falck, Oliver Woessmann, Ludger |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5747 |
| Abstract: | | Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One identification strategy uses panel information to estimate value-added models. A second exploits a quasi-experiment in East Germany created by a mistaken technology choice of the state-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the Internet reduces social capital. For some measures including children's social activities, we even find significant positive effects. |
| Subjects: | | Internet social capital |
| JEL: | | Z13 J24 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201106202002 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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