| GERACI, Andrea, Mattia NARDOTTO, Tommaso REGGIANI and Fabio SABATINI. Broadband Internet and social capital. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS. LAUSANNE (SWITZERLAND): ELSEVIER, 2022, vol. 206, February, p. 1-21. ISSN 0047-2727. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104578. |
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@article{1821977,
author = {Geraci, Andrea and Nardotto, Mattia and Reggiani, Tommaso and Sabatini, Fabio},
article_location = {LAUSANNE (SWITZERLAND)},
article_number = {February},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104578},
keywords = {ICT;Broadband infrastructure;Networks;Internet;Social capital;Civic capital},
language = {eng},
issn = {0047-2727},
journal = {JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS},
title = {Broadband Internet and social capital},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104578},
volume = {206},
year = {2022}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1821977
AU - Geraci, Andrea - Nardotto, Mattia - Reggiani, Tommaso - Sabatini, Fabio
PY - 2022
TI - Broadband Internet and social capital
JF - JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
VL - 206
IS - February
SP - 1-21
EP - 1-21
PB - ELSEVIER
SN - 00472727
KW - ICT;Broadband infrastructure;Networks;Internet;Social capital;Civic capital
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104578
N2 - We study the impact of broadband penetration on social capital in the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits a technological feature of the telecommunication infrastructure that generated substantial variation in the quality of Internet access across households. The speed of a domestic connection rapidly decays with the distance of a user’s line from the network’s node serving the area. Merging information on the topology of the network with geocoded longitudinal data about individual social capital from 1997 to 2017, we show that access to fast Internet caused a significant decline in civic and political engagement. Overall, our results suggest that broadband penetration crowded out several dimensions of social capital.
ER -
GERACI, Andrea, Mattia NARDOTTO, Tommaso REGGIANI and Fabio SABATINI. Broadband Internet and social capital. \textit{JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS}. LAUSANNE (SWITZERLAND): ELSEVIER, 2022, vol.~206, February, p.~1-21. ISSN~0047-2727. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104578.
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