Mattia Caldarulo

Despite longer lifespans, many people keep feeling “time poor,” often struggling to complete daily tasks. This challenge is most pronounced among women, who frequently have disproportionate domestic labor responsibilities, and low-income individuals, who frequently lack the resources to outsource time-intensive activities. As time poverty reinforces and perpetuates social inequalities, policies to alleviate it, such as reducing time spent on errands like queuing for goods and services, can play a key role in addressing these disparities.

This study examines the relationship between broadband adoption and county-level educational achievement in the US in which a novel measure of home broadband subscriptions to explore longitudinal community impacts of broadband adoption on aggregated standardized test scores in math and reading/language arts for students enrolled in 3rd-8th grades. A panel was created of US counties and measured the effect of broadband adoption on student educational achievement by estimating a fixed effect estimator. Key highlights from the research showed the following: