In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements … conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT … causal effect of ICT on student achievements, controlling for their initial level. Despite a significant financial investment …

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year …

compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …

member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with …

determinants of ICT adoption and its impact on performance in both countries. The descriptive evidence shows that Brazilian firms … on average use ICT more intensively than their Indian counterparts but changes over time have been rather similar in both … places. Within countries ICT intensity is strongly related to size, ownership structure, share of administrative workers and …

This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are … robust. A negative and significant effect of working on learning outcomes in both math and Portuguese is found. The effects …

understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …