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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does it Contribute to why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

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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The Effects of Computers on Children's Social Development and School Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Control Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kalil, Ariel - 2016

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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Telecommunication Submarine-Cable Deployment and the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cariolle, Joël - 2018

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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Automation and Employment over the Technology Life Cycle: Evidence from European Regions

Jaccoud, Florencia; Petit, Fabien; Ciarli, Tommaso; … - 2024

This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …

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Capital Composition and the Declining Labor Share

Eden, Maya; Gaggl, Paul - 2019

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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Isolating the "Tech" from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China

Ma, Yue; Fairlie, Robert W.; Loyalka, Prashant; … - 2020

EdTech which includes online education, computer assisted learning (CAL), and remote instruction was expanding rapidly even before the current full-scale substitution for in-person learning at all levels of education around the world because of the coronavirus pandemic. Studies of CAL...

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ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET

Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2020

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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Mums Go Online: Is the Internet Changing the Demand for Healthcare?

Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2020

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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On the Elasticity of Substitution between Labor and ICT and IP Capital and Traditional Capital

Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2022

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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Insuring Peace: Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict

Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023

We provide novel evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers, and climate change is predicted to intensify this...

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