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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. - CESifo - 2014

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics

Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2012

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …

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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. - CESifo - 2013

There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...

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Science vs. Profit in Research. Lessons from the Human Genome Project

Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - CESifo - 2001

This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...

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Technological Change, Entry and Stock Market Dynamics: An Analysis of Transition in a Monopolistic Economy

Datta, Bipasa; Dixon, Huw D. - CESifo - 2002

valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when … technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped transition dynamic, so that an initial boom in share price is followed … by a temporary fall in share price even though the underlying technology is improving. …

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