Oceania with the PISA 2009 data from 45 origin countries or regions. In addition to the level of societal gender equality of … the origin and destination countries (the gender empowerment measure, or GEM) we use macro indicators of the educational … higher levels of gender equality have higher reading scores than comparable migrant sons (but this is not the case for math …

Although computers are universal in the classroom, nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have … computers in their homes. Surprisingly, only a few previous studies explore the role of home computers in the educational … process. Home computers might be very useful for completing school assignments, but they might also represent a distraction …

discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe heterogeneity in both … discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders preferences. We show that a changing …

differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … resources and take similar advantage of these resources. Our findings indicate that gender differences in resources with respect …

recommendation as compared to the other recommendations, for students whose parents have a tertiary education degree are between 1 ….6 and 3.6 times greater than for students whose parents only have a primary education degree. For the math exit test score I …

This paper investigates two issues related to international trade in computers: measurement and prediction. Because of …, but the BEA uses it for the deflation of international sales and purchases of computers. This paper begins with a review …, separate treatment of computers in empirical models of international trade may be necessary to capture historical developments …

productivity growth after nearly a quarter century of sluggish gains. To assess the role of information technology in the recent … rebound, this paper re-examines the growth contribution of computers and related inputs with the same neoclassical framework … information technology -- including computer hardware, software, and communication equipment -- surged in the second half of the …