The purpose of this report is to examine the evidence available on the degree to which demand-side programs intended to stimulate broadband adoption have been demonstrated to fulfill their purpose. Our focus is on quantitative evaluations that seek to measure the causal impact of a program or...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) spent $4.7B during 2009-2013 to, int. al, increase broadband adoption in underserved communities. We characterize the BTOP grants and examine the impact of the awards on broadband adoption....

We analyze the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, which was part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), to determine the extent to which political influence affected implementation of the program. While other studies analyze the ARRA in totality, we focus on a...

We examine how component changes affect network value. Theory indicates that increased component value can increase sales for network access. Using a panel of countries from 2003-2017, we test this by analyzing how the iPhone’s introduction in 2007 affected mobile broadband adoption. We find...

We examine people’s tendencies to stay at home and go to traditional places of work during the early stages of the pandemic in the United States. We found no statistically significant impact of home broadband on people’s tendency to stay at home. We did find home broadband to have a small,...

There are many ways of examining how broadband relates to economic development. One that comes to mind is a country‘s global competitiveness. An index for measuring such competitiveness, the Global Competitiveness Index, ranks business competitiveness across 127 countries with the U.S. ranked...

Based on multiple metrics, the U.S. compares favorably with other developed countries in terms of innovative broadband use which is critical to sustainable economic growth. That favorable comparison may erode in future years if the U.S. fails to respond effectively to three inter-related...