Broadband Internet and social capital
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F22%3A00125179" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/22:00125179 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104578" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104578</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104578" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104578</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Broadband Internet and social capital
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
ISSN
0047-2727
e-ISSN
0047-2727
Volume of the periodical
206
Issue of the periodical within the volume
February
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
1-21
UT code for WoS article
000750475900010
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85122793334