Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247192 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 923
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance, London
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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