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Use IT or Lose IT?The Impact of Computers on Earnings

Dolton, Peter; Makepeace, Gerry; Robinson, Helen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used isinvestigated using British data …

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The returns to computer use revisited, again

Dostie, Benoît (contributor); … - 2006

Pischke (1997) of whether there exists a real wage differential associated with computer use. Employing a mixed effects model … that computer users enjoy an almost 4 per cent wage premium over non-users. Failure to correct for the worker selection …

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Experimental evidence on the effects of home computers on academic achievement among schoolchildren

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - 2013

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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Job tasks, computer use, and the decreasing part-time pay penalty for women in the UK

Elsayed, Ahmed; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier - 2014

-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full … computer use and job tasks together explain more than 50 percent of the decrease in the part-time pay penalty. …

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Virtually no effect? : different uses of classroom computers and their effect on student achievement

Falck, Oliver; Mang, Constantin; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices … exploit within-student between-subject variation in different computer uses in the international TIMSS test. We find positive …

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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor) - 2006

The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique...

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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. - 2013

clear for the effects on actual transfers to 4-year colleges and the probability of using a computer to search for college …

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Putting Computerized Instruction to the Test : A Randomized Evaluation of a "Scientifically-Based" Reading Program

Rouse, Cecilia E. - 2012

-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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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement Among Schoolchildren

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

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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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement Among Schoolchildren

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

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