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We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel … diffusion model where pre-existing voice-telephony and cable-TV networks predict maximum broadband penetration. We find that a … 10 percentage-point increase in broadband penetration raises annual per-capita growth by 0.9-1.5 percentage points …
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question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000-2008, and provides plausibly …
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makes possible. Broadband—defined by the Federal Communications Commission(FCC) as advanced communications systems capable …, availability, and future promise.Chapter 2 reviews selected community benefits and specific applications of broadband. Chapter3 … summarizes the status of broadband infrastructure and use in rural areas of the United States,with a particular focus on Sussex …
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Telecommunications access in the rural and remote areas of Australia has come under considerable scrutiny in recent years. In the past decade, various Federal Government reports and inquiries have citied inadequate infrastructure, lack of service provision, the high cost of access and ?thin?...
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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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Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social...
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the availability of broadband for high-speed Internet. We try to further disentangle the direct effect of SNS use on well …
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broadband for high-speed Internet, which relates to technological characteristics of the pre- existing voice telecommunication …
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While the importance of both broadband itself and its speed increases in a whole society, the high cost of providing … broadband as universal service at high speed still raises a question of whether to introduce the USO. Therefore, the … introduction of broadband universal service at 100Mbps since 2020 in Korea could be a meaningful case to study the necessity of …
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secondary school. We link detailed register data on around 250,000 students to local levels of access to optic fiber broadband … and estimate the effect of broadband on student GPA. We show that reaching full coverage in the student's parish of … students living in areas with faster broadband expansion also saw a greater increase in the number of hours spent online during …
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