Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232443 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8846
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design across invisible telephone exchange catchment areas. Using this strategy, we find that increasing broadband speed by 1 Mbit/s increases test scores by 1.37 percentile ranks in the years 2005-2008. This effect is sizeable, equivalent to 5% of a standard deviation in the national score distribution, and not driven by other technological mediating factors or school characteristics.
Subjects: 
broadband
education
student performance
spatial regression discontinuity
JEL: 
J24
I21
I28
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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