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/or denser population might produce increasing returns to investment in human capital (particularly to education), accelerate …
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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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The One Laptop Per Child initiative is an educational program that aims at deploying millions of rugged, ultra low-cost, individually connected laptop computers to the majority of children in developing nations that today lack access to such devices.
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incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of …
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incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of …
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intitulée «Le rôle de l’éducation dans l’utilisation et l’adoption de la technologie : Données probantes de l’Enquête sur le … travailleurs sur leur utilisation et leur adoption des nouvelles techniques. L’étude montre que l’éducation exerce des effets …
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British Columbia) and Xueda Song (York University) entitled “The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption: Evidence …As developed countries shift more toward knowledge-based economic activities, information, technology, and learning …€™ educational attainment on their use and adoption of new technologies. The study shows that education exerts causal impacts on …
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We present evidence on the impact on students' math and reading scores of one of the largest deployments of an OLPC program and the only one implemented at a national scale: Plan Ceibal in Uruguay. We have unique data that allow us to know the exact date of laptop delivery for every student in...
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This paper explores the relationship between inflation and relative price variability (RPV) by using disaggregated CPI data for Pakistan. Three methods have been used to assess the functional form and stability of the relationship between inflation and RPV; (a) visual assessment through scatter...
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