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This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
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This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. Children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access are compared with i) those who did not receive laptops and ii) those who only received...
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experimentally evaluate an innovative technology program that uses gamification to increase math learning in low-performing primary …’ preference to use technology for math learning and promoted the idea among students that study effort can raise intelligence. On …
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experimentally evaluate an innovative technology program that uses gamification to increase math learning in low-performing primary …’ preference to use technology for math learning and promoted the idea among students that study effort can raise intelligence. On …
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achievement and grade progression through 2019 to estimate the long-run effects of educational technology on i) academic … university. We find negative and significant effects on completing primary and secondary education on time but no effects on …. Information on teacher training and computer utilization suggests limited benefits of providing educational technology without …
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The public mechanical clock and the movable type printing press were two of the most important and complex general purpose technologies of the late medieval period. We document two of their most important, yet unforeseeable, consequences. First, an instrumental variables analysis indicates that...
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