TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Datta, Sandip
AU  - Kingdon, Geeta G.
        TI  - Inequality in Internet Access in India: Implications for Learning during COVID
        PY  - 2022/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15387
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15387
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - schooling
KW  - internet
KW  - equality
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - India
        ER  -