IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ebl/ecbull/eb-26-00334.html

Broadband adoption and self-employment - Evidence from the American Community Survey

Author

Listed:
  • Luyi Han

    (Pennsylvania State University)

Abstract

This study examines how broadband adoption affects self-employment among married women using data from the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). I find a positive association between broadband adoption and self-employment in both non-metro and metro areas. A one standard deviation increase in broadband adoption is associated with about a 0.33 percentage point increase in the probability of self-employment. Additional analysis suggests that broadband adoption is also associated with higher work-from-home participation and lower unemployment rates, and the results remain robust after excluding individuals who work from home. These findings suggest that improved digital connectivity may expand flexible work opportunities.

Suggested Citation

  • Luyi Han, 2026. "Broadband adoption and self-employment - Evidence from the American Community Survey," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 46(1), pages 393-404.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-26-00334
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2026/Volume46/EB-26-V46-I1-P34.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
    • L8 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-26-00334. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: John P. Conley (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.