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minority children - lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by … computer ownership and use, we find no effects on any educational outcomes, including grades, standardized test scores, credits …
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-defined use of computers in schools: a popular instructional computer program, known as Fast ForWord, which is designed to improve …. Our estimates suggest that while use of the computer program may improve some aspects of students' language skills, it …
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Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … computers to students. Although computer ownership and use increased substantially, we find no effects on any educational …
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minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by … computer ownership and use, we find no effects on any educational outcomes, including grades, standardized test scores, credits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086214
skill upgrading in the 1970s and 1980s versus the 1960s are those with greater growth in employee computer usage, more … computer capital per worker and larger investment as a share of total investment. The results suggest that the spread of … computer technology may `explain' as much as 30-50% of the increase in the rate of growth of the relative demand for more …
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This paper examines whether employees who use a computer at work earn a higher wage rate than otherwise similar workers … who do not use a computer at work. The analysis primarily relies on data from the Current Population Survey and the High … be correlated with both job-related computer use and earnings. The estimates suggest that workers who use computers on …
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