Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302282 
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Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
I4R Discussion Paper Series No. 148
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Institute for Replication (I4R), s.l.
Abstract: 
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 and nighttime light emissions. These results largely are not robust to alternative ge-ocoding 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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Working Paper

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