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...

We use a county-level panel dataset from 2012 – 2018 to assess the impacts of various state policies on total and rural broadband availability in the United States. The primary dependent variable is the percentage of residents with access to 25 Megabits per second (MBPS) download and 3 MBPS...