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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
The Role of Infrastructure in the Rural - Urban Digital Divide
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| Autores: |
Whitacre, Brian E.
Mills, Bradford F.
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| Data: |
2005-05-13
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| Ano: |
2005
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| Palavras-chave: |
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
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| Resumo: |
A significant gap exists in the percentage of rural and urban households that connect to the Internet. Furthermore, this "digital divide" has been increasing with respect to high-speed connections. The primary course of action to address this emerging high-speed digital divide has been to subsidize digital communications technology (DCT) infrastructure. This paper explores the diffusion of DCT infrastructure in both rural and urban areas over the period 2000 - 2003, and estimates its contribution to the emerging divide in high-speed access. The findings suggest that the rural - urban high-speed divide is more strongly associated with differences in household characteristics like education and income than differences in infrastructure.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
16191
http://purl.umn.edu/19352
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
American Agricultural Economics Association>2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI
Selected Paper 136326
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| Formato: |
37
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