The ongoing debate on the "digital divide" is centered on improving Internet home-access penetration rates through two instruments, price subsidies and capital subsidies. Subsidizing home access can be expensive and difficult because of the inherent difficulty of identifying target households....

This paper extends the analysis of the relative impacts of socioeconomic factors on households' decision to subscribe to dialup Internet access [Chaudhuri, A., Flamm, K., & Horrigan, J. (2005). An analysis of the determinants of Internet access, presented at the Telecommunications Policy...