first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students’ computer skills and may increase the …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by … conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …