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 …

Residential energy consumption has been increasingly singled out by public policies as a key area for potential … emission reduction. The public implementation of energy efficiency consultants (EECs) as change agents aims at the diffusion of … innovation in building efficiency and overcoming information asymmetries in the construction sector. However, the success of …

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 …

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

information about their energy use impacts on the environment. Moral obligation increases information avoidance when it is hot …Environmental policies based on information provision are widespread, but have often proven ineffective. One possible … explanation for information’s low effectiveness is that people actively avoid it. We conduct an online field experiment on air …