caa a22 4500 606229213 CHVBK 20210128101207.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10796-014-9485-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10796-014-9485-6 Does better Internet access lead to more adoption? A new empirical study using household relocation [Elektronische Daten] [Junzhao Ma, Qingyi Huang] In the past decade, governments around the world have made significant investments to improve Internet access in underserved areas. Yet there is scant evidence on how effective these measures are at increasing Internet adoption and narrowing the digital divide. In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of the supply of Internet access on Internet adoption. The main empirical challenge is the issue of endogeneity, as Internet service providers (ISPs) selectively enter markets based on local demand characteristics. We propose a novel solution to this problem using a panel dataset of households that relocate to different Internet access supply conditions. We find that the supply of Internet access has little effect on Internet adoption: underserved markets—those with fewer than 4 ISPs—exhibit levels of adoption comparable to well-served markets with plenty of service providers. Our findings suggest that the highly touted government initiatives to boost Internet access in underserved areas are likely to have limited impact on adoption rate in those regions. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 ICT adoption nationallicence Digital divide nationallicence Endogeneity nationallicence Natural experiment nationallicence Specification testing nationallicence Ma Junzhao Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, P.O.Box 197, 3145, Caulfield East, VIC, Australia aut Huang Qingyi Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China aut Information Systems Frontiers Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 17/5(2015-10-01), 1097-1110 1387-3326 17:5<1097 2015 17 10796 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-014-9485-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-014-9485-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ma Junzhao Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, P.O.Box 197, 3145, Caulfield East, VIC, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Huang Qingyi Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Information Systems Frontiers Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 17/5(2015-10-01), 1097-1110 1387-3326 17:5<1097 2015 17 10796