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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Last Mile of Broadband: Estimating the Economic Impacts of Connect America Fund Initiative
Abstract
dc:description.abstractI use a county-level panel dataset from 2013 to 2019 to assess the impacts of a federal program that provided massive subsidies to facilitate the expansion of broadband infrastructure: The Connect America Fund Phase II Program. This program incentivized telecommunications carriers to provided broadband access to high-cost areas in the United States (typically rural and other underserved communities). I study the impact of this "last mile" of broadband and assessing broadband access on local economic employment outcomes. I find that program funding in a geographic area has a positive effect on weekly wages, and potentially has a positive impact on population development.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Sloan School of Management
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2023
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Munyikwa, Zanele
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Horton, John J.
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Copyright MIT
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150052
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/150052