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 …

period is considered. The ‘role of the state’ theory performs better until 1970 whereas after the Golden Age, technology and …

GPT can be defined as "a technology that initially has much scope for improvement and evntually comes to be widely used …). Subsequently, as the scope of the technology is finally exhausted, its impact on growth will fade away. If, at that point, a new …

The usual way to evaluate the implications of new technology for economic growth is through growth accounting … technology (ICT) and the results have dominated thinking on the post-1995 growth resurgence in the United States (Oliner and …

technology adoption and trade in a world of two countriesfacing different technology adoption costs. It shows that a reduction in … the technologyadoption cost in one country increases the productivity, induces more firms to adoptadvanced technology, and … improves welfare in this country, while decreasing the pro-ductivity, inducing more firms to switch back to old technology, and …

Recently the phenomena of external technology exploitation (ETE) has startet to attract from scholars, business and … politicians likewise alongside with a growth of markets for technology. However, the makets for technology are still characterized …

This paper studies the origins and consequences of international technology gaps. I develop an endogenous growth model … where R&D efficiency varies across countries and productivity differences emerge from firm-level technology investments. The … theory characterizes how innovation and learning determine technology gaps, trade and global income inequality. Countries …

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 …