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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/10011345364
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013
colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329190
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884302
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Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations
Varady, David P.; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - 2015
increasingly considered as a means to continue small-scale urban regeneration, not only in the UK but also in several other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481672
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Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations
Varady, David P.; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
increasingly considered as a means to continue small-scale urban regeneration, not only in the UK but also in several other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125877
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A Local Community Course That Raises Wellbeing and Pro-sociality: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial
Krekel, Christian; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Fancourt, Daisy; … - 2021
local communities by means of intervention. Can we teach people to live happier lives, cost-effectively and at scale? We … Matters") is run by non-expert volunteers (laypeople) in their local communities and to date has been conducted in more than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597593
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Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015
data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence …This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level … narrowband and broadband technologies. The effects of the three main features of each technology level, which are complementarity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307478
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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 largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653126
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Innovative Events
Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna - 2019
We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative activity. We combine UK administrative microdata, media and website content to develop experimental metrics – new product/service launches – for a large panel of SMEs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005914
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Broadband Internet and Social Capital
Geraci, Andrea; Nardotto, Mattia; Reggiani, Tommaso G.; … - 2018
We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers' position in the voice telecommunication infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The...
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