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"This guide contains advice and insights from global journalists whose reporting balances these responsibilities. It was compiled to provide professionals with the information they need to jointly shape climate journalism for the 21st century. The following sections are based on presentations from t
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Digital Literacy
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2021), 20 pp.
How to Improve Communication During COVID-19: A Practical Guide
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2020), 24 pp.
"This document offers a practical guide on how to design behaviorally-informed communications and interventions that help contain the spread of Covid-19. How and with what resources should you communicate to overcome the deep behavioral biases that we all have and that are heightened in situations o
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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop Per Child Program
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2012), 40 pp.
"Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of implementat
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Evaluation of the "Una Laptop por Niño" program in Peru: Results and Perspectives
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2011), 4 pp.
"The effective implementation of the “One Laptop per Child” program was not enough to overcome the difficulties of a design that places its trust in the role of technologies themselves. The use of technologies in education is not a magic and rapid solution through which educational problems and
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Television and Divorce: Evidence from Brazilian Novelas
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2009), 17 pp.
"This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globo—the network that had a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the country—across municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980 and
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Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2008), 45 pp.
"What are the effects of television, and of role models portrayed in TV programs, on individual behavior? We focus on fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much smaller than in reality. We exploit differences in the timing of entry into differen
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