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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does it Contribute to why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed “the Boy Crisis.” An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...

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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2013

There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...

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The Effects of Computers on Children's Social Development and School Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Control Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kalil, Ariel - 2016

Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...

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Optimal policy and the risk properties of human capital reconsidered

Anderberg, Dan - 2008

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. A set of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …

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The effect of education on marital status and partner characteristics: Evidence from the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2010

This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...

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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. - 2014

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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Education, Disappointment and Optimal Policy

Anderberg, Dan; Cerrone, Claudia - 2014

Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the … potentially loss averse around their expected outcome make risky investments in education and we draw on optimal tax theory to … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …

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Experimental evidence on the effects of home computers on academic achievement among schoolchildren

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - 2013

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population - especially low-income and … intermediate inputs in education for treatment students. …

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