. Households without phones or internet access are more likely to be poor, female-headed, have less education, and rely more on …

How has innovative and competitive behavior in computing and Internet markets evolved over the past half-century? In … many of the same economic terms. In the second section, I closely examine the US commercial Internet experience in the 1990 …s. While the peculiar events that led to the invention of the commercial Internet explain some of the salient and unique …

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 … differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …