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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake

Stefan Bauernschuster Stefan Bauernschuster Oliver Falck Oliver Falck Ludger Woessmann

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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.

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Economics

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Stefan Bauernschuster

Oliver Falck

Ludger Woessmann

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Bauernschuster, S., Bauernschuster, S., Falck, O., Falck, O., Woessmann, L. (2014). Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake. https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1914247

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Tahun Terbit: 2014
Bahasa: en
Total Sitasi: 184×
Sumber Database: Semantic Scholar
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1914247
Akses: Open Access ✓