Empirical literature on digital technologies for student learning is generally unable to identify separately whether … learning gains arise from reciprocity in response to the gift of a valuable gadget (the' gadget effect') or from increasing … content. The findings show that six to eight months of exposure to eReaders led to modest positive impacts on learning, but …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity in Brazilian manufacturing firms over the … period 2000?08. The Brazilian experience is instructive, as it is a case of an economy that expanded aggregate exports … productivity growth (learning-by-exporting hypothesis) using matching techniques to control for the possibility that selection into …

This paper attempts to study the impact of Brazilian Development Bank credit on resource misallocation in Brazil, using … improving the allocative efficiency of the earmarked credit system in Brazil …

account for over half of the value of manufacturing exports. This paper uses a unique firm-level data set to analyze the link …