From Gutenberg to Google: The Internet Is Adopted Earlier if Ancestors Had Advanced Information Technology in 1500 AD
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Keywords
Internet; Technology diffusion; Information technology; Intergenerational transmission; Printing press;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- N70 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - General, International, or Comparative
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BIG-2019-12-23 (Big Data)
- NEP-CMP-2019-12-23 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-GRO-2019-12-23 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2019-12-23 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-ICT-2019-12-23 (Information and Communication Technologies)
- NEP-LMA-2019-12-23 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-ORE-2019-12-23 (Operations Research)
- NEP-PAY-2019-12-23 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
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