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operator from a single town in a European country which has full coverage with both ADSL and FTTH broadband technologies. Based … on the demand estimation we find that consumer valuation of FTTH broadband in 2013 increased over time while ADSL lost on … attractiveness relative to FTTH but also in absolute terms, which suggests that consumers increasingly care about the speed of …
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Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test whether this impedes educational achievement by conducting the largest-ever field experiment that randomly provides free home computers to students. Although computer ownership...
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How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
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find that increasing broadband speed by 1 Mbit/s increases test scores by 1.37 percentile ranks in the years 2005 …
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Broadband has become an integral part of digital infrastructure of countries around the globe even in developing … regions. Accordingly, this paper investigates the broadband growth nexus for 24 Asian countries for period 2001-2011. Using … fixed effects with Driscoll and Kraay standard errors, the effect of broadband on economic growth is found positive …
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