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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by … computer ownership and use, we find no effects on any educational outcomes, including grades, standardized test scores, credits …
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Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement
Falck, Oliver - 2015
may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices … exploit within-student between-subject variation in different computer uses in the international TIMSS test. We find positive …
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The Effects of Computers and Acquired Skills on Earnings, Employment and College Enrollment : Evidence from a Fields Experiment and California UI Earnings Records
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2018
random provision of computers. The experiment does not provide evidence that computer skills have short- or medium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924446
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An Equilibrium Model of the Market for Bitcoin Mining
Prat, Julien - 2018
We propose a model which uses the Bitcoin/US dollar exchange rate to predict the computing power of the Bitcoin network. We show that free entry places an upper-bound on mining revenues and we devise a structural framework to measure its value. Calibrating the model's parameters allows us to...
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