Estimation of the employment effects of changes in capital investment is a standard tool in public policy debates. Typically, such predictions are based on employment multipliers derived from Input–Output analysis. In this paper, we measure the employment effects of changes in capital...

Using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (“BLS”) data on industry employment, I quantify the effect on telecommunications jobs of the Obama Administration's regulatory revival in telecommunications using the difference-in-differences (“DiD”) estimator. I find that over the period 2010-2016,...

The Federal Communications Commission is coming under intense political pressure to reclassify broadband Internet access as a common carrier telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act. Yet, almost no attention has been directed at the fine details of how reclassification...