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physical tasks. These results suggest that ICT can lower gender inequality in the labor market by shifting the labor demand … interactive tasks, suggesting that gender differences in education may have limited female labor supply for the most innovative …This paper studies the effects of firms' investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their …
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education gap and a closing of the gender wage gap. Importantly, these changes occurred at a substantially different pace over …In the last decades the US economy experienced a rise in female labor force participation, a reversal of the gender … assumptions: (1) the demand for brain increases both within and across education groups; and (2) women have less brawn than men …
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Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more amenable to deep tillage than clayey soil and therefore...
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impact of a one-to-one technology program implemented on a large scale over a multiyear period. With administrative school …
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technology affects the formal economic participation of women. The focus is on 48 African countries for the period 1990-2014. The … results show that improving communication technology increases female economic participation with the following consistent …
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This study examines linkages between information and communication technology (ICT) dynamics, inequality and poverty in … promote gender inclusive education in 57 developing countries for the period 2012-2016. Poverty is measured with the poverty … personal computers to increase inclusive education, the Gini coefficient, Palma ratio and poverty headcount (% of the …
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infrastructure at peak capacity) fell by 15 percent. Moreover, this combination of technology and institutional design enabled …
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We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns and the persistence of misinformation. We implement a field experiment among a representative sample of slum residents in two major Indian cities...
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