The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used isinvestigated using British data …

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 …

Pischke (1997) of whether there exists a real wage differential associated with computer use. Employing a mixed effects model … that computer users enjoy an almost 4 percent wage premium over non-users. Failure to correct for the worker selection …

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 …

can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the wage structure. Evidence from empirical … incorporating computer skills, complementary skills and fixed costs for computer technology usage suggested by the micro literature …. It turns out that fixed costs for computer technology usage explain different patterns of computer adoption and diffusion …