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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed “the Boy Crisis.” An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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How does the memory of lives lost in past wars shape communities and the next generation of soldiers? We use newly … collected geolocated data on British servicemen to study the legacy of the Great War mortality shock on local communities and …
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Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...
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The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...
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effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … driven by the phase of the cycle when investment decelerates (and the technology is more mature). The phases of the …
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capital, ascribes a prominent role to the automation hypothesis. Though information and communications (ICT) capital is a … few decades. A framework that distinguishes between ICT and non-ICT capital is empirically plausible and suggests that …
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-based instruction, but often additional non-technology based inputs such as more time on learning and instructional support by … affect academic outcomes among schoolchildren. We isolate and test the technology-based effects of CAL and additional … isolate the technology-based effect of CAL (over and above traditional pencil-and-paper learning) we generally find small to …
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Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by … induced by ICT are exclusively science-related and stem from fields where knowledge can be codified easily. In contrast, we …
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We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors. We show that broadband internet access increased...
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KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual … types of capital and allow for differences in the elasticities of substitution between labor, an aggregate of ICT and IP … capital, and traditional capital. The estimated elasticities of substitution between ICT and IP capital are strictly below one …
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