One explanation advanced for the persistent gender pay differences in labor markets is that women avoid salary … environments where the 'rules of wage determination' are ambiguous. This leads to the gender gap being much more pronounced in jobs …

available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … computers to students. Although computer ownership and use increased substantially, we find no effects on any educational … evidence showing no change in homework time or other "intermediate" inputs in education …

interpretation of the computer-use wage differential as reflecting productivity effects arising from the introduction of computers in …

different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is … used to interpret changes in the relative quantities, wages, and wage bill shares of workers by education in the aggregate … computer technology may `explain' as much as 30-50% of the increase in the rate of growth of the relative demand for more …

be correlated with both job-related computer use and earnings. The estimates suggest that workers who use computers on … education, Finally, occupations that experienced greater growth in computer use between 1984 and 1989 also experienced above …

An outstanding challenge in education is improving learning among low-achieving students. We present results from the … first randomized experiment of an inquiry-based remedial science-education program for low-performing elementary students in ….22 standard deviations. Remedial education does not produce within-student spillovers to math, or spillovers on other students …

a traditional classroom. While this new technology has revolutionized how most teachers plan their lessons, the …