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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. - 2013
first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students ́computer skills and may increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223045
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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. - 2021
first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students’ computer skills and may increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315659
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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes : Evidence from a Field Experiment with Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2011
a field experiment involving the provision of free computers to schoolchildren for home use. Low-income children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118535
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Families, human capital, and small business : evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the children of non-business owners. Using data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002265138
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Families, human capital, and small business : evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001856058
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Families, human capital, and small business : evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612560
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The impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2023
Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335844
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The impacts of Covid-19 on racial inequality in business earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2023
Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336469
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality in Business Earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022
Many small businesses have closed, lost revenues, or downsized as a response to health and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19. But, were economic losses in the pandemic disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243981
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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. - 2014
colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393654