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[The Washington Post] If you’ve ever suspected the Internet is taking over your offline life, an economist has some disheartening news for you: It is....

Scott Wallsten, a senior researcher at the Tech Policy Institute, parsed through the American Time Use Survey and analyzed the Internet’s “crowding-out” effect — what things we do less of so we can spend more time online. His findings, released this month in a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, were pretty dramatic. For every minute people spend on “online leisure time” — i.e., not working or checking e-mail — they also spend significantly less time on other common activities....