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 …

quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …

use in schools, and ii) home use by students. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of …

use in schools, and ii) home use by students. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of …

students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate … models that include both student and classroom fixed effects and focus on students with limited choice in courses. We find … students falls by 20 to 50 percent when taught by an underrepresented minority instructor. We also find these interactions …

use in schools, and ii) home use by students. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of …

quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …