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Every Little Bit Counts: The Impact of High-speed Internet on the Transition to College
2015
Finance and Economics Discussion Series
This paper investigates the effects of high-speed Internet on students' college application decisions. We link the diffusion of zip code-level residential broadband Internet to millions of PSAT and SAT takers' college testing and application outcomes and find that students with access to high-speed Internet in their junior year of high school perform better on the SAT and apply to a higher number and more expansive set of colleges. Effects appear to be concentrated among higher-SES students,
doi:10.17016/feds.2015.108
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