Join us for a special ARNIC seminar on 11/12 at 5:30PM PT led by Dr. Miriam Rahali titled “The Matter at Hand: Making a Call for More Evidence on Smartphone Bans in Schools“ About the Talk In 2005, Dr. Miriam Rahali was teaching in a New York City public high school when mayor Michael Bloomberg…
Join us for a special ARNIC seminar on 10/22 at 5PM PT led by ARNIC Research Fellow Dr. Matt Rafalow from Google (YouTube) titled “You Really Like Me: How Audiences Shape Creativity Online” About the Talk Join our seminar on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024 to hear from Dr. Matt Rafalow. He will be sharing findings…
Join us for a special ARNIC seminar on 1/18 5PM PT led by Dr. Bill Bold from UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy titled [Business in the Public Square: A Brave New World] About the Talk Nonmarket strategy is the study of corporate behavior outside a firm’s market environment, which is defined…
On February 7th, 2025, Professor Hernan Galperin delivered a keynote lecture at a seminar hosted by the University of Brasilia’s School of Law Center on Law and Regulation. His talk, Consumer Broadband Subsidies in the US: The Life and Death of the Affordable Connectivity Program, examined the effectiveness of broadband subsidies in expanding digital access…
The 52nd Annual TPRC (The Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy) Conference is right around the corner, taking place from September 19-21, 2024. Known for bringing together a diverse mix of policymakers, academics, corporate leaders, and civil society voices, TPRC is a leading conference for anyone focused on the future of communications policy.…
Two new journal articles by Prof. Hernan Galperin examine the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). “Welfare Stigma and the Take-Up of Consumer Broadband Subsidies” examines how welfare stigma affects uptake rates for consumer subsidy programs such as Lifeline and ACP. Co-authored with former USC Price doctoral student Heonuk Ha (now Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute…
With the expiration of the ACP (Affordable Connectivity Program) benefit in May 2024, Lifeline remains the only alternative federal program that supports digital connectivity for low-income families. Yet for a variety of reasons, Lifeline enrollment has been declining since its peak in the early 2010s. One reason is the complex web of procedures to demonstrate…
Did ACP have a measurable impact on broadband access? Did the program help connect low-income families that otherwise would not have been connected? As the ACP program winds down, these questions become ever more important for policymakers and policy advocates. In this study, we offer preliminary evidence that ACP in fact helped increase broadband adoption…
Blog Post #2: Analyzing the Impact of Potential Changes to Program-Based Eligibility In the first post of this series on the future of the ACP program, we analyzed potential changes to the income threshold used to determine ACP eligibility. In this second post, we turn our attention to potential changes to the eligibility criteria based…