Broadband Internet and social capital

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Publikace nespadá pod Filozofickou fakultu, ale pod Ekonomicko-správní fakultu. Oficiální stránka publikace je na webu muni.cz.

Autoři	GERACI Andrea NARDOTTO Mattia REGGIANI Tommaso SABATINI Fabio
Rok publikování	2022
Druh	Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj	JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU	Ekonomicko-správní fakulta
Citace
www	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104578
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104578
Klíčová slova	ICT;Broadband infrastructure;Networks;Internet;Social capital;Civic capital
Přiložené soubory	broadband_internet.pdf GNRS_jpube2022.pdf
Popis	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.
Související projekty:	Economic Decision-Making: Hormonal Determinants and Ritualized Behavior