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Study of the role of ICT on Latin American economic development

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. It provides evidence using randomized and quasi-experimental designed studies for different information and communication technologies interventions. In evaluating their development impact a critical concern has been to contribute to the little existing evidence. In fact, whereas many ICT projects in the developing world have been promoted by multilateral organizations, bilateral aid agencies and nongovernmental organizations in recent years, the extent to which these interventions and policies actually contribute to the development of the region is unclear. The book provides evidence on what works and what does not.

Introduction Information Technologies in Latin America, Alberto Chong and Monica Yáñez-Pagans; 1. The Impact of ICT in Health Promotion: A Randomized Experiment with Diabetic Patients, Ana Balsa and Néstor Gandelman; 2. The Impact of ICT on Adolescents' Perceptions and Consumption of Substances: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Uruguay, Ana Balsa, Néstor Gandelman and Rafael Porzecanski; 3. Text Messages as Social Policy Instrument: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial with Internal Refugees in Colombia, Mariana Blanco and Juan F. Vargas; 4. Radio and Video as a Means for Financial Education in Rural Households in Peru, Alberto Chong, Dean Karlan and Martin Valdivia; 5. Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Subjective Job Expectations, Ana C. Dammert, Jose C. Galdo and Virgilio Galdo; 6. From Cow Sellers to Beef Exporters: The Impact of Traceability on Cattle Farmers and Laura Jaitman; 7. The Labor Market Return to ICT Skills: A Field Experiment, Florencia Lopez-Boo and Mariana Blanco; 8. Soap Operas for Female Micro Entrepreneur Training, Eduardo Nakasone and Maximo Torero; Index.

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Publié par	Anthem Press
Date de parution	29 février 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781785272011
Langue	English

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Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America
Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America
Edited by Alberto Chong and Mónica Yáñez-Pagans
Anthem Press
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ISBN-13: 978-1-78527-199-1 (Hbk)
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Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Editors
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Information Technologies in Latin America
Alberto Chong and Mónica Yáñez-Pagans
Chapter 2 The Impact of ICT in Health Promotion: A Randomized Experiment with Diabetic Patients
Ana Balsa and Néstor Gandelman
Chapter 3 The Impact of ICT on Adolescents’ Perceptions and Consumption of Substances: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Uruguay
Ana Balsa, Néstor Gandelman and Rafael Porzecanski
Chapter 4 Text Messages as Social Policy Instrument: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial with Internal Refugees in Colombia
Mariana Blanco and Juan F. Vargas
Chapter 5 Radio and Video as a Means for Financial Education in Rural Households in Peru
Alberto Chong, Dean Karlan and Martin Valdivia
Chapter 6 Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Subjective Job Expectations
Ana C. Dammert, Jose C. Galdo and Virgilio Galdo
Chapter 7 From Cow Sellers to Beef Exporters: The Impact of Traceability on Cattle Farmers
Laura Jaitman
Chapter 8 The Labor Market Return to ICT Skills: A Field Experiment
Florencia Lopez-Boo and Mariana Blanco
Chapter 9 Soap Operas for Female Micro Entrepreneur Training
Eduardo Nakasone and Máximo Torero
Index
Illustrations
Figures
7.1 The evolution of price differentials and high-value exports for beneficiaries
9.1 Reasons for not adopting business practices
Tables
2.1 Summary Statistics of Participation
2.2 Determinants of Participation in the Website Diabetes 2.0
2.3 How Much Do You Know about …?
2.4 The Impact of the Intervention on Knowledge
2.5 Trust, Communication and Consumption Patterns
2.6 The Impact of the Intervention on Patient–Physician Relationship and Health-Related Behaviors
2.7 Outcomes: Descriptive Statistics
2.8 The Impact of the Intervention on Health Outcomes
3.1 Is It a Drug? Percentage of Students That Asserted That Each of the Following Substances Is a Drug
3.2 Is It a Drug? Changes in Answers between the First and Second Surveys
3.3 The Impact of the Intervention in Adequately Perceiving Substances as Drugs
3.4 Percentage of Participants that Consumed the Following Substances
3.5 Probability of Consuming Substances
4.1 Assessment of Potential Bias Due to Self-Selection into Experimental Sample
4.2 Assessment of Potential Bias Due to Attrition
4.3 Descriptive Statistics
4.4 Awareness of Benefits—Intention to Treat
4.5 Effect of Treatment on Reported SMS Reception—Probit Regression
4.6 Effects of SMS on Benefit Awareness—Wald Estimator
4.7 Effect of SMS on Benefit Awareness ( All Benefits )
4.8 Determinants of Benefit Awareness ( All Benefits)
5.1 Stratification of Banks in Survey Sample
5.2 Balance of Characteristics of Clients Eligible to Be in the Survey Sample
5.3 Impact of the Intention to Treat: Client Retention and Savings
6.1 Experimental Design
6.2 Summary Statistics by Treatment Status
6.3 Impacts of Digital Labor Market Intermediation on Job Gain Expectations
6.4 Labor-Market Intermediation on Employment Outcome
7.1 Livestock Sector Evolution in Argentina
7.2 Summary Statistics
7.3 TRAZ.AR on Production Inputs
7.4 TRAZ.AR on Perceptions of Efficiency, Profits and Risk Management
7.5 TRAZ.AR on the Probability of Implementing Other Changes
7.6 Probability of Demanding Traceability after the Program
8.1 Descriptive Statistics
8.2 Check for Sample Balancing
8.3 Number of CVs Sent by Country, Occupational Category, Gender and ICT Skills Level
8.4 Number of Callbacks by Country, Occupational Category, Gender and ICT Skills
8.5 OLS Regression Results, Pooled Sample
8.6 OLS Regression Results for Receiving Callback, by Country and ICT Required
8.7 OLS Regression Results for Receiving Callback, by Country and Occupational Category
9.1 Characteristics of Micro Entrepreneurs
9.2 Baseline Characteristics by Treatment Status
9.3 Impact of Training on Business Practices
9.4 Impact of Training on Business Outcomes
9.5 Impact of Training on Household Outcome
9.6 Attrition Rates across Rounds
9.7 Baseline Characteristics of Attrited and Non-Attrited Micro Entrepreneurs
9.8 Sensitivity of Business Practice Adoption to Attrition
Editors

Alberto Chong is a professor in the Department of Economics at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and also holds a faculty position with Universidad Del Pacifico in Lima. He is a Fulbright Scholar and pursued graduate studies in Economics at Cornell University and Harvard University and received his MA and PhD degrees from Cornell. Dr. Chong is also Director of Development Research Strategies, a nonprofit organization that seeks to use formal empirical methods to better guide public policy. His publications include more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several books. Previously he held faculty appointments with the University of Ottawa and George Washington University and spent about a dozen years working in multilateral organizations in particular, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is currently an associate editor with Economics Bulletin and Heliyon.
Mónica Yáñez-Pagans is a senior economist in the Latin America & Caribbean Unit of the Education Global Practice at the World Bank. She works in the provision of technical assistance to governments related to the design of dissemination strategies for large-scale student assessments to promote improved education outcomes, strategies to strengthening school management, strategies to improve education public spending and financing and policies to evaluate education policy, among others. She worked as an economist in the South Asia and Middle East and North Africa, East Africa and the Horn and Global Anchor Units of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice at the World Bank. Before joining the World Bank, she worked as an associate economic affairs officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and in the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank. She holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Contributors

Ana Balsa holds a PhD in Economics from Boston University. She is Professor of Microeconomics, Econometrics of Impact Evaluation and Health Economics at Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay and Researcher Level 2 at the Uruguayan National System of Researchers (SNI). Her areas of academic interest include Health Economics and Economics of Education. She has conducted research on the implications of social interactions on behavior and human capital—focusing on statistical discrimination, relative deprivation and peer effects and on the economic impact of health and education programs and policies, including prenatal care, anti-tobacco campaigns, drug prevention and treatment, charter schools and parenting programs. Her projects have been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Uruguayan National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII), the Uruguayan Ministry of Public Health (MSP) and the Latin American Development Bank (CAF).
Mariana Blanco holds a PhD in Economics from Royal Holloway College, University of London. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad del Rosario, Colombia where she set up the first Experimental Economics Lab in Bogotá, which is today known as REBEL (Rosario Experimental and Behavioral Economics Lab). Mariana is an experimental economist working in many areas, such as labor economics, education economics, development, political economy among others. She is mainly recognized for her contributions on social preferences and belief formation. Her papers have been published in journals such as Journal of Economic Theory, Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behaviour, Management Science, among others.
Ana C. Dammert is Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Carleton University. Her main re