A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving … educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational … outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary contexts in which technology may be used for educational purposes: i) classroom …

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We …

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We …

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 … differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …

This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet … diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical foundations, in which we regress Internet usage on … that economic strength, infrastructure and knowledge of the English language positively affect Internet connectivity. In …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

While the Internet has been found to reduce trading frictions in a number of other markets, existing research has … found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with longer unemployment durations in 1998/2000 - using comparable data … about 25 percent. This finding is robust to controls for workers' AFQT scores and detailed indicators of Internet access …

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 …