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Digital State Capacity
Patrick Healy, Simon D. Angus, Paul Raschky +4
Digital State Capacity is the ability of governments to deploy ICT infrastructure and information systems to implement policy. This paper introduces a new measure of government ICT…
Friends, Key Players and the Adoption and Use of Experience Goods
Rhys Murrian, Paul A. Raschky, Klaus Ackermann
This paper empirically investigates how an individual's network influences their purchase and subsequent use of experience goods. Utilising data on the network and game-ownership o…
The Heterogeneous Productivity Effects of Generative AI
David Kreitmeir, Paul A. Raschky
We analyse the individual productivity effects of Italy's ban on ChatGPT, a generative pretrained transformer chatbot. We compile data on the daily coding output quantity and quali…
The Unintended Consequences of Censoring Digital Technology -- Evidence from Italy's ChatGPT Ban
David H. Kreitmeir, Paul A. Raschky
We analyse the effects of the ban of ChatGPT, a generative pre-trained transformer chatbot, on individual productivity. We first compile data on the hourly coding output of over 8,…
Competing for Attention -- The Effect of Talk Radio on Elections and Political Polarization in the US
Ashani Amarasinghe, Paul A. Raschky
This paper studies the effects of talk radio, specifically the Rush Limbaugh Show, on electoral outcomes and attitude polarization in the U.S. We propose a novel identification str…
Predicting Political Ideology from Digital Footprints
Michael Kitchener, Nandini Anantharama, Simon D. Angus +1
This paper proposes a new method to predict individual political ideology from digital footprints on one of the world's largest online discussion forum. We compiled a unique data s…
Estimating Sleep & Work Hours from Alternative Data by Segmented Functional Classification Analysis (SFCA)
Klaus Ackermann, Simon D. Angus, Paul A. Raschky
Alternative data is increasingly adapted to predict human and economic behaviour. This paper introduces a new type of alternative data by re-conceptualising the internet as a data-…
Object Recognition for Economic Development from Daytime Satellite Imagery
Klaus Ackermann, Alexey Chernikov, Nandini Anantharama +2
Reliable data about the stock of physical capital and infrastructure in developing countries is typically very scarce. This is particular a problem for data at the subnational leve…
Expropriations, Property Confiscations and New Offshore Entities: Evidence from the Panama Papers
Ralph-Christopher Bayer, Roland Hodler, Paul Raschky +1
Using the Panama Papers, we show that the beginning of media reporting on expropriations and property confiscations in a country increases the probability that offshore entities ar…
Religion and Terrorism: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
Roland Hodler, Paul Raschky, Anthony Strittmatter
We study the effect of religion and intense religious experiences on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan fasting. For identification, we exploit two…
The Internet as Quantitative Social Science Platform: Insights from a Trillion Observations
Klaus Ackermann, Simon D Angus, Paul A Raschky
With the large-scale penetration of the internet, for the first time, humanity has become linked by a single, open, communications platform. Harnessing this fact, we report insight…