Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263603 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15387
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young people's internet access across gender, caste, religion, rural-urban sector, private-public schools, and income group. Our triple-hurdle model of internet use shows that, ceteris paribus, there is a very significant digital divide across many of the social and economic groups. Additionally, intra-household analysis using family fixed effects estimation shows that girls have significantly lower ability to use internet vis-à-vis their brothers within the household.
Subjects: 
schooling
internet
equality
COVID-19
India
JEL: 
I21
I24
I25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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