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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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IC technology and learning : an impact evaluation of cl ssi2.0

Checchi, Daniele; Rettore, Enrico; Girardi, Silvia - 2015

In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements … conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT … causal effect of ICT on student achievements, controlling for their initial level. Despite a significant financial investment …

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Integrating mobile phone technologies into labor-market intermediation : a multi-treatment experimental design

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C.; Galdo, Virgilio - 2015

This study investigates the causal impacts of integrating mobile phone technologies into traditional public labor-market intermediation services on employment outcomes. By providing faster, cheaper and up-to-date information on job vacancies via SMS, mobile phone technologies might affect the...

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Resources on the stage : a firm level analysis of the ICT adoption in Turkey

Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level … data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence …

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Broadband internet and social capital

Geraci, Andrea; Nardotto, Mattia; Reggiani, Tommaso; … - 2018

We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers' position in the voice telecommunication infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The...

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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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Knowledge spillovers, ICT and productivity growth

Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cécilia - 2014

member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with …

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Competition reform and household welfare: a microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...

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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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Innovative events

Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna - 2019

We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative activity. We combine UK administrative microdata, media and website content to develop experimental metrics - new product/service launches - for a large panel of SMEs. Extensive...

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