ISBN:
9781785272011
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (224 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48330979999997
Schlagwort(e):
Information technology-Latin America
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development through the use of randomized and quasi-experimental methods.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Editors -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapters 1-9 -- Chapter 1 Information Technologies in Latin America -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Good Research Design Is Important and Feasible -- 1.3 Interventions Considered -- 1.4 Information May Not Be Enough -- 1.5 What Is the Common Thread? -- 1.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2 The Impact of ICT in Health Promotion: A Randomized Experiment with Diabetic Patients -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background -- 2.3 Methodology -- 2.3.1 Design overview -- 2.3.2 Recruitment and participants -- 2.3.3 The intervention -- 2.3.4 Program evaluation -- 2.4 Results -- 2.4.1 Participation in the Diabetes 2.0 intervention -- 2.4.2 Evaluation of the impact of Diabetes 2.0 -- 2.4.2.1 Impact on knowledge -- 2.4.2.2 Impact on empowerment and behavior -- 2.4.2.3 Impact on outcomes -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 The Impact of ICT on Adolescents' Perceptions and Consumption of Substances: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Uruguay -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Background -- 3.3 Methods -- 3.3.1 The intervention -- 3.3.2 Levels of participation -- 3.4 Results -- 3.4.1 What is a drug? -- 3.4.2 Consumption -- 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4 Text Messages as Social Policy Instrument: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial with Internal Refugees in Colombia -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Experimental Design -- 4.2.1 Implementation -- 4.2.2 Sample issues and threats to inference -- 4.2.2.1 Selection -- 4.2.2.2 Attrition -- 4.3 Results -- 4.3.1 Heterogeneous effects -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Radio and Video as a Means for Financial Education in Rural Households in Peru -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Review of the Literature.
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