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-defined use of computers in schools: a popular instructional computer program, known as Fast ForWord, which is designed to improve …. Our estimates suggest that while use of the computer program may improve some aspects of students' language skills, it …
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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 …
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skill upgrading in the 1970s and 1980s versus the 1960s are those with greater growth in employee computer usage, more … computer capital per worker and larger investment as a share of total investment. The results suggest that the spread of … computer technology may `explain' as much as 30-50% of the increase in the rate of growth of the relative demand for more …
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Recent technological changes have been characterized as “routine-substituting,” reducing demand for routine tasks but increasing it for analytical and service tasks. Little is known about how these changes have impacted immigration, or task specialization between immigrants and natives. In...
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This guide provides a practical introduction to parallel computing in economics. After a brief introduction to the basic ideas of parallelization, we show how to parallelize a prototypical application in economics using, on CPUs, Julia, Matlab, R, Python, C++-OpenMP, Rcpp–OpenMP, and C++-MPI,...
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random provision of computers. The experiment does not provide evidence that computer skills have short- or medium …
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Toys. The impact of computers on productivity has been examined directly on macro data and indirectly (on wages) using microeconomic data. This study examines the direct impact on the productivity of scholarship by considering how high technology might alter patterns of coauthoring of articles...
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size and significance of the excess returns to IS capital is larger. Computer capital and labor jointly contribute, or …
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This research investigates product life cycles in the commercial mainframe computer market. We show that empirical …
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We use data on imports of computer equipment for a large sample of countries between 1 970 and 1990 to investigate the … determinants of computer-technology adoption. We find strong evidence that computer adoption is associated with higher levels of … human capital and with manufacturing trade openness vis-a-vis the OECD. We also find evidence that computer adoption is …
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