Home broadband and human capital formation

Arbeitspapier

This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design across invisible telephone exchange catchment areas. Using this strategy, we find that increasing broadband speed by 1 Mbit/s increases test scores by 1.37 percentile ranks in the years 2005-2008. This effect is sizeable, equivalent to 5% of a standard deviation in the national score distribution, and not driven by other technological mediating factors or school characteristics.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 923

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Analysis of Education ; Education: Government Policy ; Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
• Thema: Broadband ; Education ; Student Performance ; Spatial Regression Discontinuity

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa ; Montalbán, José ; Weinhardt, Felix
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance
• (wo): London
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/247192
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ