The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number …

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 …

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We …

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We …

to make transfers to state governments on the basis of political considerations. These considerations are the alignment …

to make transfers to state governments on the basis of political considerations. These considerations are the alignment …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …

diffusion of internet access in the late 1990?s. Which types of persons incorporated the internet into their job search strategy … internet job search derived from the December 1998 and August 2000 CPS Computer and Internet Supplements, matched with job … search outcomes from subsequent CPS files. We find that internet searchers are positively selected on observables, but …

We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret …