Nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. The role of home computers in … two main U.S. datasets that include recent information on computer ownership among children -- the 2000-2003 CPS Computer … truancy and crime, among children in addition to making it easier to complete school assignments. -- computers ; educational …

substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the children of non-business owners. Using data from the …

quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …

use in schools, and ii) home use by students. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of …

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 … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

One frequently cited yet understudied channel through which funding levels impact college students is course ….S. undergraduates and over half of minority students in public colleges. The impacts of course availability in this setting may be … reliance on state funding. Across a range of bandwidths, we find that students stuck on a waitlist and shut out of a course …