Bitcoin in particular and so-called cryptocurrencies in general have shaken up the financial world and seem to be …

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 contexts in which technology may be used for educational purposes: i) classroom …

inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …

evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations. …

socioeconomic causes as well as its consequences for human capital, secularization, political change, technology diffusion, and … various effects across the world. We highlight three general insights that emerge from this literature. First, the …

Central banks around the world are exploring and in some cases even piloting Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs …