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Parental resources and college attendance : evidence from lottery wins
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W.; Goodman, Sarena; … - 2020
We examine U.S. children whose parents won the lottery to trace out the effect of financial resources on college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387524
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309995
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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 … control experiment in which more than one thousand children attending grades 6-10 across 15 different schools and 5 school … districts in California were randomly given computers to use at home. Children in the treatment group are more likely to report …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571485