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The Digital Divide For Rural America: Decomposing Cost and Preferences

Huther, Claire Elisabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564331115811494

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2019, Master of Arts, Miami University, Economics.
Recent decades have been associated with rapid technological innovation in the United States. Consumer use of this innovation, however, is not uniformly distributed. Previous work has estimated an especially large gap in access to broadband service between rural and urban areas. Using survey data, I find that this digital divide can be explained in large part through the differing demographic characteristics between rural and urban households. Controlling for income level, generation, and household composition, I document a 13 percentage point digital divide that varies considerably with the generation of the household. This 13 percentage point digital divide is much smaller than the FCC’s reported 45 percentage point divide in 2015. However, this smaller divide is still pertinent to policy.
Charles Moul, Dr. (Advisor)
Michael Lipsitz, Dr. (Committee Member)
Mark Tremblay, Dr. (Committee Member)
26 p.
Economics
digital divide; urban-rural gap; rural; high speed internet, broadband; cord-cutting

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  • Huther, C. E. (2019). The Digital Divide For Rural America: Decomposing Cost and Preferences [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564331115811494

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Huther, Claire. The Digital Divide For Rural America: Decomposing Cost and Preferences. 2019. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564331115811494.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Huther, Claire. "The Digital Divide For Rural America: Decomposing Cost and Preferences." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564331115811494

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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