Although schools across the country are investing heavily in computers in the classroom, there is surprisingly little …-defined use of computers in schools: a popular instructional computer program, known as Fast ForWord, which is designed to improve …

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 …

computer technology may `explain' as much as 30-50% of the increase in the rate of growth of the relative demand for more …

This paper provides the first evidence on the earnings, employment and college enrollment effects of computers and … acquired skills from a randomized controlled trial providing computers to entering college students. We matched confidential … random provision of computers. The experiment does not provide evidence that computer skills have short- or medium …

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 … argument that high-technology functions as a consumption rather than an investment good. As such, it can be welfare …

determinants of computer-technology adoption. We find strong evidence that computer adoption is associated with higher levels of …