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 … home computers and enrollment in transferable courses and actual transfers to 4-year colleges. The results from the field …

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as …

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 of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students …

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. …

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 …

. Economic growth is driven by R&D activities of Northern entrepreneurs. Top Northern production technologies are imitated by the …