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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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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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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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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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A framework is developed with what we call technology capital. A country is a measure of locations. Absent policy … constraints, a firm owning a unit of technology capital can produce the composite output good using the unit of technology capital … is what constrains the number of units it operates using this unit of technology capital. If it has two units of …
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basically depends on material and relational goods, we show that the best-case scenarios hold when technology and social capital … technology and social interaction balance one another in fostering the growth of both the social and the private sector of the … economy. Along such tracks, technology may play a crucial role in supporting a “socially sustainable” economic growth …
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