%0 Report
        %A Datta, Sandip
%A Kingdon, Geeta G.
        %T Inequality in Internet Access in India: Implications for Learning during COVID
        %D 2022
        %8 2022 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15387
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15387
        %X During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young people's internet access across gender, caste, religion, rural-urban sector, private-public schools, and income group. Our triple-hurdle model of internet use shows that, ceteris paribus, there is a very significant digital divide across many of the social and economic groups. Additionally, intra-household analysis using family fixed effects estimation shows that girls have significantly lower ability to use internet vis-à-vis their brothers within the household.
        %K schooling
%K internet
%K equality
%K COVID-19
%K India