implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child's missed assignments, grades and class … increases parent monitoring. Our results show that this type of automated technology can improve student effort relatively …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted … technology that is increasingly ubiquitous: school-to-parent communication technologies. Using data from a Learning Management … System in several hundred schools and a two-stage experiment to study the adoption of this technology by parents, I find: A …

technology shocks in explaining aggregate fluctuations. To this end we estimate the model's posterior density using Markov …

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as …. When goods are differentiated enough, adoption occurs later than it is socially optimal. -- technology adoption …

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle … different realizations of firm specific technology shocks, possibly leading to default by some firms. The paper advances a new … financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined …