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computers at home have ambiguous implications for educational achievement: expenditures devoted to technology necessarily offset …
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differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density …
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multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are more likely to use computers than the Australian born. As the level of computer …
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Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We … factors associated with computer and Internet penetration do not differ substantially between developed and developing …
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differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822834
multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are more likely to use computers than the Australian born. As the level of computer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763562
Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We … factors associated with computer and Internet penetration do not differ substantially between developed and developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566818
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 …
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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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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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