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This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women's outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant...
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This paper studies the impact of a computer-assisted learning program on learning outcomes among high school students in The Gambia. The program uses innovative technologies and teaching approach to facilitate the teaching of mathematics and science. Since the pilot schools were not randomly...
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This paper provides an explanation for why many information campaigns fail to affect decision-making. The authors experimentally show that a large information intervention about a profitable and climate-friendly household investment had limited effects if it only provided generic data. In...
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sample of firms in Vietnam, Senegal, and the Brazilian state of Ceara. The analysis finds a large variance in technology … sophistication across the business functions of a firm. The within-firm variance in technology sophistication is greater than the … countries. The paper documents a stable cross-firm relationship between technology at the business function and firm levels …
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