Infrastructure investment and rural economic development: an evaluation of USDA's Broadband Loan Program.

By Ivan T. Kandilov, M. Renkow. 2010

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Rural-to-Urban Commuting: Three Degrees of Integration (2010, background): “, Kandilov and Renkow (2010) find no stimulative effect on local economic activity, underlining the fact that it is likely a combination of infrastructure availability and other characteristics that is required.”
Broadband Internet and New Firm Location Decisions in Rural Areas (2017, unknown): “Stenberg (2009), Kolko (2012), and Atasoy (2013) report that broadband availability increased rural economic growth.”
Rural development in the digital age: A systematic literature review on unequal ICT availability, adoption, and use in rural areas (2017, background): “…the effectiveness and ef ﬁ cacy of policy measures and programs implemented so far: Often the conclusion is that the Act and program do not deliver what they should deliver (Strover, 2003; Whitacre and Mahasuweerachai, 2008; Kandilov and Renkow, 2010; Berg et al., 2011; Holt and Galligan, 2013).”
Does rural broadband impact jobs and income? Evidence from spatial and first-differenced regressions (2014, background): “Related work began to assess the relationship between broadband and economic growth, with some evidence linking higher levels of broadband infrastructure and adoption to improvements in economic outcomes (Czernich et al. 2011; Kolko 2012; Holt and Jamison 2009).”