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Does Technology in Schools Affect Repetition, Dropout and Enrollment? Evidence from Peru

Czerwonko, Alejo Eduardo; Cristia, Julian; Garofalo, Pablo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

Many developing countries are allocating significant resources to expanding technology access in schools. Whether these investments will translate into measurable educational improvements remains an open question because of the limited evidence available. This paper contributes to filling that...

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The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students' Digital Skills in Peru

Cristia, Julian; Bet, Germán; Ibarrarán, Pablo - Inter-American Development Bank - 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...

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Does ICT Increase Years of Education?: Evidence from Peru

Cristia, Julian; Czerwonko, Alejo Eduardo; Garofalo, Pablo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

A number of empirical studies have measured the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on test scores, yet there is a lack of empirical evidence on the effects of this type of intervention on drop-out and repetition rates, variables that have a direct impact on years of...

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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program Title: Tecnología y desarrollo infantil: Evidencia del programa Una computadora por niño

Cristia, Julian; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 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...

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The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Oligopolists

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

sales price of a developed innovation. This will trigger preemptive acquisitions by incumbents, thus increasing the reward …

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Entrepreneurial Commercialization Choices and the Interaction between IPR and Competition Policy

Gans, Joshua S.; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … them. Consequently, we demonstrate that competition policy has a clearer role in promoting a higher rate of innovation in … increasing the rate of entrepreneurial innovation. …

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs’ choice of riskiness of an innovation … project and on their mode of commercializing the innovation (market entry versus sale). Limited loss offset provisions in the … fundamental policy trade-off between the declared goals of promoting employment and innovation in small, entrepreneurial firms …

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the con.ict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more...

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Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information, and Ownership in the Innovation Process

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

' signaling-driven investment, despite the risk of buying a bad innovation. We finally show at what point the presence of active …

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

the bidding competition for the innovation and by increasing the relative profitability of being the most efficient firm … innovation for sale, relative to innovation for entry. …

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