Do educational inequalities affect Internet use? An analysis for developed and developing countries

Billón Currás, Margarita; Crespo, Jorge; Lera López, Fernando

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Do educational inequalities affect Internet use? An analysis for developed and developing countries

dc.contributor.author	Billón Currás, Margarita
dc.contributor.author	Crespo, Jorge
dc.contributor.author	Lera López, Fernando
dc.contributor.department	Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE	en
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-26T08:35:11Z
dc.date.available	2022-11-07T00:00:11Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.description.abstract	This study investigates whether the existence of educational inequalities at the country level affects Internet use. Additionally, we explore the extent to which these impacts depend on countries' economic development levels. We use a logit model and data set of 69 high- and middle-income countries for the period 2005-2015. We find a negative relationship between Internet use and education inequality for the whole sample. The results confirm that, in addition to the level of education and other socioeconomic variables, the distribution of formal education among citizens within a country is also important to explain Internet use. We also obtain that this distribution affects Internet use to a higher extent in middle-income economies in comparison with high-income ones. Unlike the positive influence of educational levels obtained in the academic literature, the existence of within-country educational disparities negatively influences Internet use. This study demonstrates the influence of countries' educational structure in relative terms in explaining Internet use.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This study was funded by The Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad, Spanish Government (grant number ECO2017-86305-C4-4-R (AEI/FEDER, EU). The authors thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable and interesting comments.	en
dc.embargo.lift	2022-11-07
dc.embargo.terms	2022-11-07
dc.format.extent	35 p.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.tele.2020.101521
dc.identifier.issn	0736-5853
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/41957
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartof	Telematics And Informatics, Volume 58, May 2021, 101521	en
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/ECO2017-86305-C4-4-R/ES/	en
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2020.101521
dc.rights	© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0	en
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dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Internet	en
dc.subject	Education	en
dc.subject	Digital divide	en
dc.subject	Inequality	en
dc.subject	Information and communications technologies (ICT)	en
dc.subject	Economic development	en
dc.title	Do educational inequalities affect Internet use? An analysis for developed and developing countries	en
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