This paper examines a large-scale randomized evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in 531 rural primary schools, as implemented by the Peruvian government starting in 2009. We use administrative and survey data on academic achievement and grade progression through 2019 to...

Sustainable entrepreneurship refers to the practice of creating and managing a business venture in a manner that is environmentally and socially responsible while still maintaining financial profitability. Social media has become essential for entrepreneurs to build and promote their businesses....

The closing of schools and shift to remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school. There is little credible evidence on how one-to-one...

The emergence of different computing methods such as cloud-, fog-, and edge-based Internet of Things (IoT) systems has provided the opportunity to develop intelligent systems for disease detection. Compared to other machine learning models, deep learning models have gained more attention from...

The study of information and communications technology (ICT) adoption signals that diffusion processes within highly unequal societies produces a strati cation in the access to digital technologies and thus, maintains or even increases previous socio-economic disparities. Whereas technological...

In this paper we investigate whether human capital accumulation, during adolescence, depends on home investments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from the Greek part of the European Union Statistics on...