| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w26982
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 26982
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| Social Distancing, Internet Access and Inequality |
| Lesley Chiou; Catherine Tucker
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| 发表日期 | 2020-04-13
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| 出版年 | 2020
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper measures the role of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on an individual's ability to self-isolate during a global pandemic. We use data that tracks 20 million mobile devices and their movements across physical locations, and whether the mobile devices leave their homes that day. We show that while income is correlated with differences in the ability to stay at home, the unequal diffusion of high-speed Internet in homes across regions drives much of this observed income effect. We examine compliance with state-level directives to avoid leaving your home. Devices in regions with either high-income or high-speed Internet are less likely to leave their homes after such a directive. However, the combination of having both high income and high-speed Internet appears to be the biggest driver of propensity to stay at home. Our results suggest that the digital divide---or the fact that income and home Internet access are correlated---appears to explain much inequality we observe in people's ability to self-isolate. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization
; Industry Studies
; Other
; Accounting, Marketing, and Personnel
; COVID-19
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26982
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584654
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Lesley Chiou,Catherine Tucker. Social Distancing, Internet Access and Inequality. 2020.
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