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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 Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2000
A rapidly growing literature examines the impact of immigrants on the labor market outcomes of native-born Americans. However, the impact of immigration on natives in self-employment has not been examined, despite the over-representation of immigrants in that sector. We first present a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471214
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The Effects of Computers and Acquired Skills on Earnings, Employment and College Enrollment : Evidence from a Fields Experiment and California UI Earnings Records
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2018
acquired skills from a randomized controlled trial providing computers to entering college students. We matched confidential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924446
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The Effects of Computers and Acquired Skills on Earnings, Employment and College Enrollment : Evidence from a Field Experiment and California UI Earnings Records
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2018
acquired skills from a randomized controlled trial providing computers to entering college students. We matched confidential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453438
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W. - 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/10013047318
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Estimating Peer Effects among College Students : Evidence from a Field Experiment of One-to-One Pairings in STEM
Fairlie, Robert W.; Oliver, Daniel; Millhauser, Glenn; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships … effects but we find some evidence that low-ability peers negatively affect low-ability and medium-ability students. The …
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