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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. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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

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ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries …, telephone density, legal quality and banking sector development are associated with technology penetration rates. Overall, the … countries. Estimates from Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions reveal that the main factors responsible for low rates of technology …

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Do Home Computers Improve Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Current Population Surveys and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997

Beltran, Daniel O.; Das, Kuntal K.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. The role of home computers in the educational process, however, has drawn very little attention in the previous literature. We use panel data from the two main U.S. datasets that include recent information...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

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