We use a county-level panel dataset from 2012 – 2018 to assess the impacts of various state policies on total and rural broadband availability in the United States. The primary dependent variable is the percentage of residents with access to 25 Megabits per second (MBPS) download and 3 MBPS...

This paper meshes 1.7 million housing transactions across three states (Iowa, Minnesota, and Texas) between 2015 and 2021 with data on broadband infrastructure to evaluate the impact of fiber broadband availability on home prices. This was a period of dramatic fiber growth in these states: prior...

The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) represents an historic investment by the federal government to address the digital divide. Its goals are both to increase the rate of broadband adoption and make it easier for low-income households to sustain service. But what have been the drivers of...