To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density … the Internet, this ordering is reversed. The regionspecific explanations for large disparities in computer and Internet …

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density … the Internet, this ordering is reversed. The regionspecific explanations for large disparities in computer and Internet …

and Internet access.  In this paper, I use data from the Computer and Internet Use Supplement to the August 2000 Current …-half as likely to own a computer and one-third as likely to have Internet access at home than are whites.  The black home … computer rate is 59 percent of the white rate and the black home Internet access rate is 51 percent of the white rate. Using …