Findings from Brattle Whitepaper Highlighted by Law360
Law360 highlights findings from a whitepaper prepared by Principal Dr. Paroma Sanyal and Managing Energy Associate Dr. Wonjun Chang examining the economic impact of eliminating or reducing E-Rate, a program designed to help schools and libraries cover the costs of broadband services and internal networks.
The whitepaper, prepared for the Schools, Health & Libraries (SHLB) Coalition, uses a computable general equilibrium model of the US economy to estimate the potential loss of GDP resulting from the elimination of E-Rate.
The model “represents households, firms, government, labor, capital and product markets as an interdependent system, so a change in E-rate support can affect more than the schools and libraries receiving the subsidy,” according to the whitepaper.
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