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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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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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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. Aset of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …
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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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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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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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