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Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Iyer, Lakshmi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...
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The Impact of Aid on Growth Revisited: Do Donor Motives Matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012888
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students Digital Skills in Peru
Bet, German; Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884229
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Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries: Drivers and Clusters
Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector; Silva, José I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and technology – are … achieving real convergence and, by extension, nominal convergence. We conclude by outlining technology as the key convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884247
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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program
Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884274
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884302
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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States
Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in … separately identify the impacts of recent changes in trade and technology on U.S. regional economies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959703
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The Effect of Access to Information and Communication Technology on Household Labor Income: Evidence from One Laptop Per Child in Uruguay
Marandino, Joaquin; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
. This program has considerably increased access to information technology within households since evidence shows that … parents make use of the technology. Households in the department of Florida received laptops in 2007, while those in the …
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The Impact of a One Laptop per Child Program on Learning: Evidence from Uruguay
De Melo, Gioia; Machado, Alina; Miranda, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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. Unlike previous work in the field, we have unique data that allow us to know the exact date of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959827