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an earnings-weighted basis. In view of this projection, we consider some implications of home internet access quality …, exploiting data from the new Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Moving to high-quality, fully reliable home internet …. Our survey data also say that subjective well-being was higher during the pandemic for people with better home internet …
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Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We … factors associated with computer and Internet penetration do not differ substantially between developed and developing …
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To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density … differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …
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We build and analyze new metrics of digital usage that leverage telemetry data collected by Microsoft during operating system updates across forty million Windows devices in U.S. households. These measures of US household digital usage are much more comprehensive than those made available...
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Is private industry investing in backbone digital technology in a manner consistent with social policy? To address this question we assemble highly disaggregate data and compute indices for the geographic distribution of advanced backbone information technology in computing and...
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of public policy. We demonstrate how advancements in satellite imagery and machine learning can help ameliorate these … combination of satellite imagery and computer vision can be used to develop local-level livelihood measurements appropriate for …
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on high-resolution satellite imagery and deep learning methods. Our application estimates changes in household welfare in … housing quality and household wealth, we infer changes in household wealth based on satellite-derived changes in housing …
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To understand how global firm networks operate, we need consistent information on their activities, unbiased by their reporting choices. In this paper, we collect a novel dataset on the light that factories emit at night for a large sample of car manufacturing plants. We show that nightlight...
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We apply deep learning to daytime satellite imagery to predict changes in income and population at high spatial …
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We use state-of-the-art, satellite-based PM2.5 estimates to assess the extent to which the EPA's existing, monitor …-based measurements over- or under-estimate true exposure to PM2.5 pollution. Treating satellite-based estimates as truth implies a … importance of accounting for prediction error in satellite-based estimates. Uncertainty in "policy errors" increases …
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