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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet
Bulman, George - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
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Preferences, Purchasing Power Parity, and Inequality : Analytical Framework, Propositions, and Empirical Evidence
Majumder, Amita - 2015
This paper makes analytical, methodological and empirical contributions to the literature on purchasing power parity. Purchasing power parities are required in a host of cross-country welfare comparisons, such as poverty rates and gross domestic product. The subject has recently generated much...
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Jobs' amenability to working from home : evidence from skills surveys for 53 countries
Hatayama, Maho; Viollaz, Mariana; Winkler, Hernan - 2020
The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of … development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home. The paper considers jobs' characteristics and uses internet access … more intensive in physical/manual tasks, using less information and communications technology, and having poorer internet …
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Collective versus Decentralized Wage Bargaining and the Efficient Allocation of Resources
Cai, Xiaoming - 2015
An advantage of collective wage agreement is that search and business-stealing externalities can be internalized. A disadvantage is that it takes more time before an optimal allocation is reached because more productive firms (for a particular worker type) can no longer signal this by posting...
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The Evidence on Globalization
Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
Globalization is blamed for many socio-economic shortcomings. I discuss the consequences of globalization by surveying the empirical globalization literature. My focus is on the KOF indices of globalization (Dreher 2006a and Dreher et al. 2008a), that have been used in more than 100 studies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055390
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An Empirical Study of Pricing Strategies in an Online Market with High-Frequency Price Information
Ellison, Sara Fisher - 2014
We study competition among a score of firms participating in an online market for a commodity computer component. Firms were able to adjust prices continuously; prices determined how the firms were ranked and listed (lowest price listed first), with better ranks contributing to firms' sales....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057184
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The Impact of China's Slowdown on the Asia Pacific Region : An Application of the GVAR Model
Inoue, Tomoo - 2015
growing region in the world. In recent years, despite waning demand from the crisis-hit Western economies, the accelerating …
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Varietal Identification in Household Surveys : Results from an Experiment Using DNA Fingerprinting of Sweet Potato Leaves in Southern Ethiopia
Kosmowski, Frederic - 2016
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) varieties have important nutritional differences and there is strong interest to identify nutritionally superior varieties for dissemination. In agricultural household surveys, this information is often collected based on the farmer's self-report. However, recent...
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Why Do Some Oil-Rich Countries Perform Better Than Others?
Iqbal, Farrukh - 2017
Progress in child mortality reduction and education attainment varies widely among oil-rich countries. This paper investigates the causes of this variation using an empirical model that departs from the available literature in allowing for explicit measurement of the impact of initial levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246156
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An Exploration of the Relationship between Police Presence, Crime, and Business in Developing Countries
Islam, Asif - 2016
Economic theory predicts that a rise in police presence will reduce criminal activity. However several studies in the literature have found mixed results. This study adds to the literature by exploring the relationship between the size of the police force and crime experienced by firms. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246476