Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary … so that all public schools and libraries in the U.S. will receive subsidized service to the Internet. The cost of the … of the higher taxation of interstate telephone services to fund the Internet access discounts. I estimate the cost to the …

like wages or GDP growth. Applied econometrics has since evolved to prioritize the estimation of specific causal effects …

government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation …

earlier economics literature on statistical discrimination.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and …

strategies that combine econometrics and machine learning when conducting forecasts with new big data sources. Specifically … reduction strategies and traditional econometrics approaches in fore-cast accuracy, there are further significant gains from …

Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … adoption of broadband internet in firms. Our results suggest that broadband internet improves (worsens) the labor outcomes and … internet. We find suggestive evidence that broadband adoption in firms complements skilled workers in executing nonroutine …

Economics and history both strive to understand causation: economics using instrumental variables econometrics and …