State and local governments have enacted different types of legislation aimed at improving broadband availability. Two unstudied policies of interest are: (1) “dig-once” policies requiring state-funded construction projects to notify local internet providers about the opportunity to bury...

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Rural communities suffer from both supply and demand-side disadvantages when dealing with Internet access. Telecommunications companies are less likely to provide them with needed infrastructure due to lower population densities, and they also tend to have lower levels of specific factors known...

Broadband, or high-speed Internet access, has changed the way our society operates; yet there are still parts of rural American where the connection is lagging behind. Closing the ‘digital divide’ is a priority on rural America’s agenda, with government programs focusing on providing...

Researchers and practitioners of precision agricultural technology have worked to overcome adoption, cost, and environmental obstacles since its introduction. The next gap in the adoption continuum of profitable precision agricultural technologies is data and data use, the so-called Big Data....

This paper meshes 1.7 million housing transactions across three states (Iowa, Minnesota, and Texas) between 2015 and 2021 with data on broadband infrastructure to evaluate the impact of fiber broadband availability on home prices. This was a period of dramatic fiber growth in these states: prior...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought renewed attention to broadband, and the federal response included significant funding for this issue. The broadband policy landscape shifted from its traditional emphasis on providing infrastructure to also include subsidizing the costs associated with devices and...