area or with a larger urban population.  Broadband access does not affect new firm entry in more remote rural markets …

For the first 13 years after entry, the hazard rate for firm exits is persistently higher for urban than rural firms …. While differences in observed industry market, local market and firm attributes explain some of the rural-urban gap in firm … survival, rural firms retain a survival advantage 25% greater than observationally equivalent urban firms. In competitive …

. Differences in broadband access explain three-fourths of the gap in telecommuting between urban and rural markets. Telecommuters … broadband access improves in rural markets, the urban-rural gap in telecommuting will diminish. The urban-rural pay gap will … also decrease if improved broadband access induces some already highly paid urban workers to move to rural areas. …