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The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students Digital Skills in Peru

Bet, German; Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...

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Economic Growth and Human Development

Ramirez, Alejandro; Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - 1997

health and education, notably female, represent especially important links determining the strength of the relationship …

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Experimental evidence on the effects of home computers on academic achievement among schoolchildren

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - 2013

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … evidence showing no change in homework time or other intermediate inputs in education. …

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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges: Evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

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The Impact of a One Laptop per Child Program on Learning: Evidence from Uruguay

De Melo, Gioia; Machado, Alina; Miranda, Alfonso - 2014

We present evidence on the impact on students' math and reading scores of one of the largest deployments of an OLPC program and the only one implemented at a national scale: Plan Ceibal in Uruguay. Unlike previous work in the field, we have unique data that allow us to know the exact date of...

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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...

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Sustainable development issues in scientific publications

Sikacz, Hanna - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 1035-1050

research relating to the issue of sustainable development to the following four sub-areas: (1) education for sustainable …

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Is the World Flat?

Incaltarau, Cristian; Donici, Gabriel-Andrei - In: CES Working Papers 2 (2010) 2, pp. 29-36

Globalization became more and more prominent during the last decades. There is no way to argue that globalization led to more interconnected economies, facilitating the communication and the collaboration around the world. But where is this going? Doesglobalization mean uniformity or diversity?...

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Technology, education, life and non-life insurance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2019

This article examines the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in modulating the effect of … education on life insurance and non-life insurance consumption in 48 African countries for the period 2004-2014. Education is … established. First, from the nexuses between education, ICT and life insurance, there are positive conditional effects from the …

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