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The returns to computer use revisited, again

Dostie, Benoît (contributor); … - 2006

heterogeneity. -- wage determination ; computers ; mixed models ; linked employer-employee data …

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Technology and education : computers, software, and the internet

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

computers at home have ambiguous implications for educational achievement: expenditures devoted to technology necessarily offset …

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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

the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …

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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 … conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 … "intermediate" inputs in education for treatment students. -- computers ; education ; experiment …

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Job tasks, computer use, and the decreasing part-time pay penalty for women in the UK

Elsayed, Ahmed; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier - 2014

Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full-time workers within these occupations explains...

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Virtually no effect? : different uses of classroom computers and their effect on student achievement

Falck, Oliver; Mang, Constantin; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect … effects of using computers to look up information and negative effects of using computers to practice skills, resulting in …

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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor) - 2006

The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique...

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One-to-one technology and student outcomes

Hull, Marie; Duch, Katherine - 2017

New technologies offer many promises to improve student learning, but efforts to bring them to the classroom often fail to produce improvements to student outcomes. A notable exception to this pattern is one-to-one laptop programs. While early evaluations of these programs have been encouraging,...

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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 … districts in California were randomly given computers to use at home. Children in the treatment group are more likely to report …

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Information technology and the knowledge elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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