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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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schools to the suspension of lessons in order to guarantee students' right to education. The working paper explains what DAD … digitization of the Italian school; it then explores digital education in Lucanian schools through the analysis of statistical … economic development. Ensuring quality, fair and inclusive education is the fourth goal of the UN Agenda 2030 and is a …
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Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … evidence showing no change in homework time or other intermediate inputs in education. …
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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estimate a model of time allocation that emphasizes the role of home production technology. We find it necessary to consider … both labor-augmenting technology and total factor productivity in home production. Based on the estimated model, we study … production technology and wage heterogeneity highlighted. …
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An interview with Oded Galor on the development of unified growth theory.
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this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries …, telephone density, legal quality and banking sector development are associated with technology penetration rates. Overall, the … countries. Estimates from Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions reveal that the main factors responsible for low rates of technology …
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sector gain influence at the expense of other, non-food lobbies and the general population. In this framework, technology … plays an important role. Technology, by increasing the rate at which the economy expands, allows government to reap the …
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period is considered. The ‘role of the state’ theory performs better until 1970 whereas after the Golden Age, technology and …
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GPT can be defined as "a technology that initially has much scope for improvement and evntually comes to be widely used …). Subsequently, as the scope of the technology is finally exhausted, its impact on growth will fade away. If, at that point, a new …
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