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Home-Country Internet and Immigrants' Well-Being

  • Alexander Yarkin
蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings
vol. 115, May 2025
(pp. 432–37)
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Abstract

This paper documents the effects of home-country internet expansion on immigrants' health and subjective well-being (SWB). Combining data from the European Social Survey with data on 3G and overall internet expansion, I find that immigrants' SWB increases following home-country internet expansion. This result is observed in two-way fixed effects and event study frameworks. The effects are stronger for (i) first-generation immigrants, (ii) those less socially integrated, and (iii) those with stronger family ties abroad. Thus, while recent evidence finds negative effects of the internet and social media on well-being, the effects are different for immigrants.

Citation

Yarkin, Alexander. 2025. "Home-Country Internet and Immigrants' Well-Being." 蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings 115: 432–37. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20251027

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JEL Classification

  • I12 Health Behavior
  • I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
  • J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
  • L82 Entertainment; Media
  • L96 Telecommunications
  • Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification