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An economy benefits from advances in technical frontiers only when new technology comes into general use. This paper measures the diffusion of computing equipment at a time when computing technology underwent dramatic technical improvement. These data shed light on the long lag between advances...
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experiments were important for value creation in Internet access markets. In general, industry-wide returns from economic …
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Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … factors associated with computer and Internet penetration do not differ substantially between developed and developing … and across developing countries. To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and …
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To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density …, this ordering is reversed. The region-specific explanations for large disparities in computer and Internet penetration are …
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important ways. This article shows that computerization and use of the Internet are associated with greater hours worked as well …, that trade unions have begun to use the Internet as a tool for servicing members and carrying their message to the public …
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actually took place outside of the computer sector. Almost none of the acceleration was cyclical. There is now clear supportive …
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This paper studies how information and communication technology (ICT) improvements affect trade along the value chain and international technology diffusion. We examine the impact of a revolutionary technology, the roll-out of the global telegraph network, on the 19th century cotton textile...
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A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
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networking devices and the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the … rate or return from IT spillovers from the invention of the Internet, and to a large potential undercounting of "digital …
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Recent research suggests that rates of extreme poverty, commonly defined as living on less than $2/person/day, are high and rising in the United States. We re-examine the rate of extreme poverty by linking 2011 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and Current Population...
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