Home Broadband and Human Capital Formation

Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3772087

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“…For example, Aguirre et al ( 2021 ) found evidence that computers and the internet at home positively impacted English language performance in Columbia. Sanchis-Guarner et al ( 2021 ) found that increasing broadband speed by 1Mbps increases test scores by 1.37 percentiles ranks in the UK. Similarly, Dettling et al ( 2018 ) used data from the U.S. and found that students with broadband access in their postal codes performed better on the SAT.…”

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“…Despite the proliferation of the literature on the effect of technology on educational attainment or learning worldwide with mixed results (e.g., Aguirre et al, 2021 ; Sanchis-Guarner et al, 2021 ; Dettling et al, 2018 ; Fairlie et al, 2010 ; Harter & Harter, 2004 ; Cairlie & Robinson 2013 ), there is little empirical work in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. The present study contributes to the sparse literature on the effect of technology access on student learning hours, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Student access to technology at home and learning hours during COVID-19 in the U.S

Ogundari

2023

Educ Res Policy Prac

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Studies have shown that the digital divide affects students' educational achievement across racial and ethnic groups. In light of this, the study investigates the effect of technology access at home on student learning hours during the COVID-19 pandemic and across racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. The Household Pulse Surveys (HPS), conducted by the United States Census Bureau and administered from August 19, 2020, to March 29, 2021, were used for the analysis. We compute a composite index of technology access using the principal component analysis (PCA). And for the empirical model, the study employed a Tobit regression model. The result shows that the estimated index of technology access based on PCA for the whole sample is about 0.92, indicating a higher level of access. However, the breakdown by race/ethnicity shows an average of about 0.93, 0.89, 0.90, 0.94, and 0.89 for students representing White, Black, Hispanic, Asia, and other races, respectively. This means the intensity at which households in the sample have access to technology is higher among the Asian and White students, followed by Hispanic, Black, and other races in that order. The estimated effect of technology access on the student learning hours during COVID-19 based on the Tobit regression model shows about a 3.1 unit points increase over the whole sample. And further analysis reveals variation at which access to the technology impacts learning hours across race and ethnicity groups. For example, we find that access to technology significantly increased learning hours by about 3.5, 1.6, 2.2, and 3.4 unit points among White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian students, respectively. The observed differing effect of access to technology on learning hours further highlights the racial disparities in American society’s digital divide, which reveal how access to technology disproportionately impacts student learning hours during the COVID-19 pandemic across race and ethnicity.

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Student access to technology at home and learning hours during COVID-19 in the U.S

Ogundari

2023

Educ Res Policy Prac

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“…From an economic‐perspective, broadband infrastructure is commonly viewed through the lens of a place‐based investment that may boost regional economic growth and provide benefits to both households and firms (Arvin & Pradhan, 2014; Prieger, 2013; Whitacre & Gallardo, 2020). Although job creation/retention and business formation has been a mainstay of broadband‐related research, recent evidence has also linked broadband expansion with firm location decisions (Duvivier, 2019), reducing educational attainment gaps (Hampton et al., 2020), promoting greater human capital formation (Sanchis‐Guarner et al., 2021), advancing gender equality (Bahia et al., 2021), increasing rural housing values (Deller & Whitacre, 2019), and even improving a variety of personal health outcomes (Bauerly et al., 2019).…”

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Does broadband affect local economic outcomes less than we thought? Micro evidence from Louisiana

Wagner,

Lee

2023

Contemporary Economic Policy

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High‐speed internet access is a core tenet of economic development strategies post‐COVID. While expanding access is linked to many positive benefits, evidence associating broadband to job growth and business formation is more mixed. This study expands the literature along several dimensions, most notably exploring how business download speeds affect employment, business formation, and survival at a microscale. Using conventional and Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator instrumental variables strategies, with terrain features as instruments, we find consistent evidence that broadband speeds stimulate local development. However, our estimates are 60%–65% smaller than those from recent studies, suggesting that broadband may be less beneficial than previously assumed.

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“…Through broadband network, learners are no longer subject to various constraints, such as time, distance, and school, and can efficiently acquire the knowledge they need, so that they can accumulate new knowledge more easily (Ardichvili, 2002). Therefore, broadband network can effectively improve learning capabilities and expand access to education (Sanchis‐Guarner et al, 2021). Finally, broadband network provides a faster and less expensive communication method, which promotes extensive exchange of knowledge between R&D personnel and departments and ultimately improves the efficiency of knowledge spillover (Kafouros, 2006).…”

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Ecological innovation effect of broadband network infrastructure: Evidence from China

Luo

Feng

2022

Manage Decis Econ

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This study investigates the impact of Broadband Network Infrastructure (BNI) on urban ecological innovation (EI). The implementation of China's “Broadband China” Demonstration City (BCDC) construction policy provides a quasi‐natural experiment for examining the causal effect of BNI on urban EI. Using the difference‐in‐differences method, we find that BNI significantly increases the number of green patent applications in local cities, and that the effect is increasing over time. Examination of the underlying mechanism reveals that BNI promotes urban EI through stimulating entrepreneurship, improving human capital level, and attracting investment agglomeration. This paper contributes to the understanding of why significant innovation frequently occurs in places with relatively perfect infrastructure, such as networks.

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Home Broadband and Human Capital Formation

Cited by 12 publications

References 52 publications

Student access to technology at home and learning hours during COVID-19 in the U.S

Student access to technology at home and learning hours during COVID-19 in the U.S

Does broadband affect local economic outcomes less than we thought? Micro evidence from Louisiana

Ecological innovation effect of broadband network infrastructure: Evidence from China

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