Nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. The role of home computers in … two main U.S. datasets that include recent information on computer ownership among children -- the 2000-2003 CPS Computer … truancy and crime, among children in addition to making it easier to complete school assignments. -- computers ; educational …

substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the children of non-business owners. Using data from the …

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 …

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 …

Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but … control experiment in which more than one thousand children attending grades 6-10 across 15 different schools and 5 school … districts in California were randomly given computers to use at home. Children in the treatment group are more likely to report …