One laptop per child at home: Short-term impacts from a randomized experiment in Peru

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 53-80

  Beuermann, Diether W ^a   Cristia, Julian ^a   Cueto, Santiago ^b   Malamud, Ofer ^c   Cruz Aguayo, Yyannu ^a  

^a INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

^b Group for the Analysis of Development Lima   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 84928314587     PISSN: 19457782     EISSN: 19457790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/app.20130267     Document Type: Article

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