implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child's missed assignments, grades and class … increases parent monitoring. Our results show that this type of automated technology can improve student effort relatively …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted … technology that is increasingly ubiquitous: school-to-parent communication technologies. Using data from a Learning Management … System in several hundred schools and a two-stage experiment to study the adoption of this technology by parents, I find: A …

literature to formalize the implications of robot technology. As for the first question, we establish robust evidence that ex …

inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …

This paper studies the origins and consequences of international technology gaps. I develop an endogenous growth model … where R&D efficiency varies across countries and productivity differences emerge from firm-level technology investments. The … theory characterizes how innovation and learning determine technology gaps, trade and global income inequality. Countries …