High-speed Internet growth and the demand for locally accessible information content

Bekkerman, Anton; Gilpin, Gregory

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2013.03.009

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“…Moving beyond modelling the direct relationship between ICT and spatial structure, Bekkerman and Gilpin [ 30 ] focused on the role of locally based information resources using a dataset about the US libraries during the period 2000–2008. Their results suggest that internet access increases the demand and the value of locally accessible information, and such complementarities are higher in larger metropolitan areas.…”

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Ubiquitous digital technologies and spatial structure; an update

Tranos

Ioannides

2021

PLoS ONE

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This paper examines the impact of widespread adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) on urban structure worldwide. Has it offset agglomeration benefits and led to more dispersed spatial structures, or has it strengthened urban externalities and thus resulted in more concentrated spatial structures? Theoretical and empirical studies on this question have produced contradictory findings. The present study recognizes that assumptions made earlier about the evolution of technological capabilities do not necessarily hold today. As cutting-edge digital technologies have matured considerably, a fresh look at this question is called for. The paper addresses this issue by means of several data sets using instrumental variable methods. One is the UN data on Urban Settlements with more than 300, 000 inhabitants. Estimation methods with these data show that increased adoption of ICT has resulted in national urban systems that are less uniform in terms of city sizes and are characterized by higher population concentrations in larger cities, when concentration is proxied the Pareto (Zipf) coefficient for national city size distributions. Two, is disaggregated data for the urban systems of the US, defined as Micropolitan and Metropolitan Areas, and for the UK, defined as Built-up Areas in England and Wales, respectively. These data allow for the impacts to be studied for cities smaller than those included in the cross-country data. Increased internet usage improved a city’s ranking in the US urban system. Similarly, increased download speed improves a built-up area’s ranking in England and Wales.

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Ubiquitous digital technologies and spatial structure; an update

Tranos

Ioannides

2021

PLoS ONE

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“…Evidently, there appears to be a strong spatial autocorrelation and network effects over the Internet [7]. Like other technological innovations, the Internet has facilitated knowledge spillovers [36]. Thus, Internet dispersion may have changed the relative importance of geographical proximity in production.…”

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Internet Access, Spillover and Regional Development in China

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As Internet access grows at different rates across regions, the Internet has had variable effects on regional economies through agglomeration and spillover effects. This paper uses province-level panel data from 2000 to 2013 to study inequality in Internet access, its spatial effect on regional economies in China and the channels through which the spillover effects are most evident. We find that the Internet has dispersed quickly from core cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, to coastal provinces; and has had increasingly significant effects on neighboring regions. However, the Internet speed is still comparatively low outside the core cities. We then use endogenous growth models to quantify the effect of Internet access on regional economies. Our results show that, while Internet dispersion is positively associated with economic growth, the spillover effect varies significantly by region and is more pronounced in developed regions. So is the effect of the science and technology environment. Developed regions have benefited the most in the process. The three channels of spillover are listed here in order of relative significance: economy, proximity and urbanization. The spillover effect of the Internet may lead to the divergence of regional economies, working against the national goal of reducing regional inequality.

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“…Our setting is closely related to a smaller literature that tries to directly estimate the e ects of public libraries on communities and individuals. 6 Bhatt (2010) instruments for library usage with the distance to the nearest public library and nds that libraries increase the amount of time that children spend reading and reduce children's television consumption. Rodríguez-Lesmes, Trujillo, and Valderrama (2014) use a di erence-in-di erence approach to show that the construction of two public libraries in Bogota, Colombia had no e ect on nearby high school students' test scores.…”

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“…Note that Jackson and Mackevicius (2021) equivalently calculate average e ects of school capital spending by averaging over all available test subjects. We de ne per-student counts using the sum of all students in a particular district-year in grades[3][4][5][6][7][8] …”

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The Returns to Public Library Investment

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Karger

Nencka

2021

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Local governments spend over 12 billion dollars annually funding the operation of 17,000 public libraries in the United States, yet we know little about their e ects. We use data describing the near-universe of public libraries to show that public library investment increases children's attendance at library events by 18%, children's checkouts of items by 21%, and library visits by 21%. Increases in library use translate into improved test scores in nearby school districts: a $1,000 or greater per-student capital investment in local public libraries increases reading test scores by 0.02 standard deviations and has no e ects on math test scores.

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High-speed Internet growth and the demand for locally accessible information content

Cited by 23 publications

References 20 publications

Ubiquitous digital technologies and spatial structure; an update

Ubiquitous digital technologies and spatial structure; an update

Internet Access, Spillover and Regional Development in China

The Returns to Public Library Investment

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