The rewards of municipal broadband: An econometric analysis of the labor market

被引:2
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作者
Ford, George S. [1 ]
Seals, R. Alan [2 ]
机构
[1] Phoenix Ctr Adv Legal & Econ Publ Policy Studies, Chief Economist, Washington, DC 20015 USA
[2] Auburn Univ, Econ, Auburn, AL 36849 USA
关键词
Broadband; Internet; Government-owned network; Municipal broadband; GROWTH;
D O I
10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102220
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
With data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, we estimate the effect of a large-scale, government-owned broadband network in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on labor market outcomes. Difference-in-Differences, augmented with Coarsened Exact Matching, is used to estimate the causal effect of the network across nine labor market outcomes. We find no economically- nor statistically-significant effect on the labor market from the city's broadband investments.
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