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Explaining changes in the racial digital divide in the United States from 1997 to 2007

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  • Tadesse Wodajo
  • Jean Kimmel

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This paper explores the dissemination of access to home Internet among Whites and Blacks in the US, the inequalities observed between the groups (known as the digital divide ), the trends exhibited by the two groups in the acquisition of Internet access, and the factors contributing to these disparities. The study focuses on the large and growing digital divide observed among Whites and Blacks in the period 1997--2007. Both the standard and a variant of the Blinder--Oaxaca decomposition techniques are employed to identify and quantify the factors that contribute to this gap. In all decompositions, differences in education, family income, household composition, and access to the Internet outside the home are found to be the primary factors that explain the racial digital gap.

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  • Tadesse Wodajo & Jean Kimmel, 2013. "Explaining changes in the racial digital divide in the United States from 1997 to 2007," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(5), pages 483-518, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ecinnt:v:22:y:2013:i:5:p:483-518
    DOI: 10.1080/10438599.2013.776267
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    1. John Schmitt & Jonathan Wadsworth, 2002. "Give PCs a Chance: Personal Computer Ownership and the Digital Divide in the United States and Great Britain," CEP Discussion Papers dp0526, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
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