Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
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DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.1914247
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发表时间：
2011
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通讯作者：
Ludger Woessmann
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作者：
Stefan Bauernschuster;Oliver Falck;Ludger Woessmann
互联网是否会破坏社会资本或促进现实世界中的人际交往和公民参与？我们将独特的电信数据与地理编码的德国个人数据相结合，研究宽带互联网如何影响社会资本的多个维度。一种识别策略使用面板信息来估计增值模型。第二个例子利用了东德的一项准实验，该实验是由于 20 世纪 90 年代国有电信提供商错误的技术选择而造成的，该实验仍然阻碍了许多家庭的宽带互联网接入。我们没有发现任何证据表明互联网减少了社会资本。对于包括儿童社交活动在内的一些措施，我们甚至发现了显着的积极影响。
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.