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 …

technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the …

: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on …. We find a positive effect of engineering education on the propensity to patent, and a negative OLS bias. Our …

with the Pill, we speculate, may have provided women with the means to pursue higher education at a time of limited student …

. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education system not have been? Using the education …

particular when comparing local and national funding of education, which correspond to special cases of segregation and …

insurance against unemployment caused by labour market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show … within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …

the labour market and underinvestment in education. A central insight is that the ex-post participation decision of … workers endogeneously generates increasing marginal returns to education. Although equilibrium implies underinvestment in … education, optimal policy is not to subsidise education. Instead it is to subsidise labour market participation which we argue …