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2. Impacts of the usda broadband loan and grant programs, the: Moving toward estimating a rate of return
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kandilov, Ivan T. (author) and Renkow, Mitch (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07-01
- Published:
- United States: Wiley-Blackwell
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12777
- Journal Title:
- Economic Inquiry
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 58, Issue 3, Pages 1129 - 1145
- Notes:
- 17pgs, In this article, we evaluate the rate of return to government efforts to promote broadband. Specifically, we estimate the impact of USDA's broadband loan and grant programs on the average payroll per worker using zip code level data from the Zip Code Business Patterns for the period from 1997 to 2007. Our results indicate that two of the smaller broadband programs (the Pilot loan program and the broadband grants program) likely had no effect on local payroll per workers. On the other hand, the largest program in terms of funding and coverage (the current broadband loan program) likely had a positive impact. Our estimate implies that a $1 per capita increase in a particular zip code's one-time receipt of the current program broadband loan results in a $0.92 increase in payroll per worker annually. Our calculated point estimates of the benefit: cost ratios for this broadband program range from 1.98 to 2.99, depending on assumptions about the time frame over which benefits accrue. However, the confidence intervals are wide enough to include the possibility that the costs outweigh the benefits.
3. Internet technologies in the Himalayas: lessons learned during the 1990s
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Akhtar, S. (author) and Gregson, T. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA: Bowker-Saur
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27188
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Information Science
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 27, Issue 1, pp. 9-17
- Notes:
- Published in 2001.