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Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth
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We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel of OECD countries in 1996-2007. Our instrumental-variable model derives its non-linear first stage from a logistic diffusion model where pre-existing voice-telephony and cable-TV networks predict maximum broadband penetration. We find that a 10 percentage-point increase in broadband penetration raises annual per-capita growth by 0.9-1.5 percentage points. Results are robust to country and year fixed effects and controlling for linear second-stage effects of our instruments. We verify that our instruments predict broadband penetration but not diffusion of contemporaneous technologies like mobile telephony and computers.
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- Authors
- Czernich, N., Falck, O., Kretschmer, T., & Woessmann, L.
- Venue
- The Economic Journal
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2011-05-01
- Volume
- 121
- Issue
- 552
- Pages
- 505-532
- ISSN
- 0013-0133 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-0297
- OpenAlex
- W1937315645
- Cited by
- 1,383
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 146.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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