The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matriculate into high school. Based on a randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged...

Innovation and competition are two major pillars in the IT industry. In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between product market competitiveness and the innovations in the IT industry. We measure the innovations from both the quantity (number of patents) and the quality (number of...