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Adopting Mobile Money : Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa
Batista, Catia - 2020
Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...
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The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet : Evidence from Nigeria
Bahia, Kalvin - 2020
This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a nationally representative longitudinal household...
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Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania
Bahia, Kalvin; Castells, Pau; Cruz, Genaro; Masaki, Takaaki - 2022
What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet? To respond to these questions, this paper applies a difference-in-differences estimation using...
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Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate : Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya
Menon, Nidhiya - 2014
Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated with regulations, infrastructure, security, workforce, corruption, and finance. This study shows that such reliance has significant positive impacts on productivity as measured...
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Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Ochoa, Rogelio; Lach, Samantha - 2021
Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries. Understanding the barriers to broadband adoption is thus a priority in designing policies aiming to expand access and close the digital divide across socioeconomic groups and...
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Biases in Student Evaluations of Teaching : An American Case Study
Radchenko, Natalia - 2020
This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to …
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If (My) 6 Was (Your) 9 : Reporting Heterogeneity in Student Evaluations of Teaching
Bertoni, Marco - 2020
document that students sort across elective courses according to their reporting style. As a result, the average evaluation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826244
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Does Evaluating Teachers Make a Difference?
Briole, Simon - 2019
In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have nonetheless a direct impact on teachers' career...
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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna - 2015
the extent to which scientific impact evaluation methods can provide evidence to improve the effectiveness and efficiency … drawing on real-life examples from the small but growing academic literature, we demonstrate how impact evaluation methods can … limited resources is a key challenge for humanitarian assistance and impact evaluation is one way of achieving this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029648
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School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography
Battistin, Erich - 2017
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...
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