This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in … Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did … not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received laptops without internet. We find that providing free internet access …

This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in … Peru. Children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access are compared with i) those who … did not receive laptops and ii) those who only received laptops without internet. It is found that providing free internet …

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. …

significant role in explaining the presence of energy efficiency measures (loft insulation, cavity wall insulation and full double …

to energy efficient technology (EET), I attempt to identify firm-level determinants of innovation and research in this … sizeable differences of the explaining factors of energy efficiency related innovation as compared to overall innovation. In …

Aim: The aim is to recognize the main determinants of the energy efficiency improvement in transport in Poland in the … further reduction of energy consumption.Design / Research methods: Techniques used to analyse changes in energy use are … impact of energy efficiency gains on the level of energy consumption, at the most detailed sector disaggregation level …

Subject of the study presented in this paper is the analysis of the relevance of the Internet as an information source … in German banks. The results show, that today the Internet is indeed the most important information source for many types … of information used in the business processes of banks. Especially sources free of charge are not only used widely, they …

This paper studies the role of imperfect information and attentional biases in the context of energy efficiency … variation in information provision to quantify how tenants trade-off energy efficiency and rent increases. A set of quantile … regressions suggests that information on expected energy bills reduction induces around 30% of tenants to equate financial savings …

in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial … ambiguous and highly dependent on the information design. Informing consumers that an LED saves 90% in annual energy costs …How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question …