The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa: Comment
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| author | Roodman, David |
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| contents | Hjort and Poulsen (2019) frames the staggered arrival of submarine Internet cables on the shores of Africa circa 2010 as a difference-in-differences natural experiment. The paper finds positive impacts of broadband on individual- and firm-level employment -- with a bias toward skilled employment -- and on nighttime light emissions. These results largely are not robust to alternative geocoding of survey locations, to correcting for a satellite changeover at end-2009, and to revisiting a definition of the treated zone that has no clear technological basis, is narrower than the spatial resolution of nearly all the data sources, and is empirically suboptimal as a representation of the geography of broadband. |
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| spellingShingle | The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa: Comment Roodman, David General Economics Economics Hjort and Poulsen (2019) frames the staggered arrival of submarine Internet cables on the shores of Africa circa 2010 as a difference-in-differences natural experiment. The paper finds positive impacts of broadband on individual- and firm-level employment -- with a bias toward skilled employment -- and on nighttime light emissions. These results largely are not robust to alternative geocoding of survey locations, to correcting for a satellite changeover at end-2009, and to revisiting a definition of the treated zone that has no clear technological basis, is narrower than the spatial resolution of nearly all the data sources, and is empirically suboptimal as a representation of the geography of broadband. |
| title | The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa: Comment |
| topic | General Economics Economics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13694 |