In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements … conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT … causal effect of ICT on student achievements, controlling for their initial level. Despite a significant financial investment …

to shed light on Chile’s official development assistance graduation experience. Its main objective is to understand the …

Despite rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Chile has remained high and remarkably constant over … inequality in Chile has concentrated on the national and regional levels. The impact of cash subsidies to poor households on … local inequality is thus not well understood. Using poverty-mapping methods to asses this impact, we find heterogeneity in …

From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a … alternative policies for improving educational inputs? This chapter assesses the current state of empirical knowledge, and gaps in …

The COVID-19 pandemic risks exacerbating inequality in Asia. High frequency labor surveys show that the pandemic is … to increase inequalities. As a result, income inequality, which was already high and rising in Asia before the pandemic …