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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. - CESifo - 2014

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - CESifo - 2013

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by conducting the largest-ever field experiment...

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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - CESifo - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the United States, we find no strong or lasting effects on...

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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - CESifo - 2013

There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...

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Carl Menger and Friedrich von Wieser on the role of knowledge and beliefs

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2012

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Knowledge and individual behaviour in the Austrian tradition of business cycles: von Mises vs. Hayek

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2003

in Mises and Hayek's explanations of the different hases of the trade cycle, by underlying the role played by knowledge …

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Macroeconomic analysis and individual economic rationality: some lessons from Wicksell to Schumpeter and von Mises

Arena, Richard; Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2005

The purpose of this contribution is to investigate the problem of the room attributed to individual economic rationality by circulation approaches. Our investigation will not privilege however the modern contributions of this approach but will instead utilize the works of some economists of the...

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Introduction

Arena, Richard; Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2006

This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as … perspective on the meaning, as well as the role, of knowledge and beliefs in economics in the future. Possible lines of future … action are discussed.A platform for future research and investigation into the role of knowledge and beliefs in economics …

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Carl Menger and Friedrich von Wieser on the role of knowledge and beliefs

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2009

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

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