Broadband and Local Growth

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Broadband Internet and New Firm Location Decisions in Rural Areas (2017, neutral): “To confront this concern, Kolko (2012) used an instrumental variable approach that used the average slope of local terrain as an instrument for local broadband penetration.”
Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Economic Growth: Evidence from Developing Countries (2019, background): “Thus, countries with wide broadband availability have seen higher economic growth and lower unemployment rates (Kolko 2012; Jayakar and Park 2013; Kumar et al. 2015; Pradhan et al. 2018).”
Rural development in the digital age: A systematic literature review on unequal ICT availability, adoption, and use in rural areas (2017, background): “The general conclusion is that advanced telecommunication technologies contribute to GDP growth through investment in the infrastructure itself and through productivity improvement (Ford and Koutsky, 2005; Van Gaasbeck, 2008; Capello et al., 2011; Greenstein and McDevitt, 2011; Forman et al., 2012; ”
The Employment and Wage Impact of Broadband Deployment in Canada (2015, positive): “This is similar to the approach in Kolko (2012), where the average slope of the local terrain is used as an instrument for broadband expansion.”