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 […]

[…] and transfers at the regional level in Czechia, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Poland and the UK. Using microsimulation techniques, we provide descriptive statistics and estimates of the impact of 2019 tax-benefit policies on poverty and within and between-region inequality. Within-region inequality is found to be the primary explanatory factor of total inequality in all […]

[…] specified within the model. One of the key innovations in LABSim is its linkage with EUROMOD, a static tax-benefit microsimulation model used to evaluate the immediate distributional impact of policy changes (the “morning after” effect). The static model allows ex-post evaluation of policies, as well as ex-ante evaluation of hypothetical policy changes. When combined […]

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