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Assessing the Costs of Balancing College and Work Activities : The Gig Economy Meets Online Education

Aucejo, Esteban; Perry, A. Spencer; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Balancing the demands of work and schooling is a challenging task for an increasing number of students who have to pay their way through college and for workers who intend to upgrade their skills. However, flexible learning and working environments could play an important role in easing many...

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Remix Rights and Negotiations Over the Use of Copy-Protected Works

Gans, Joshua S. - 2014

This paper examines an environment where original content can be remixed by follow-on creators. The modelling innovation is to assume that original content creators and remixers can negotiate over the 'amount' of original content that is used by the follow-on creator in the shadow of various...

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Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning

Figlio, David N. - 2010

This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction … versus watching these same lectures in an internet setting, where all other factors (e.g., instruction, supplemental …-experimental analyses of internet instruction in higher education, we find modest evidence that live-only instruction dominates internet …

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Can Online Delivery Increase Access to Education?

Goodman, Joshua - 2016

Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research has focused on comparing student performance across online and in-person formats. We provide the first evidence that online education affects the number of people pursuing...

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The Competitive Effects of Online Education

Deming, David J. - 2016

We study the impact of online degree programs on the market for U.S. higher education. Online degree programs increase the competitiveness of local education markets by providing additional options in areas that previously only had a small number of brick-and-mortar schools. We show that local...

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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet

Bulman, George - 2016

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

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Stock repurchases and incentive compensation

Jolls, Christine - 1998

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Crime and the timing of work

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1998

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Information technology, workplace organization, and the demand for skilled labor : firm-level evidence

Bresnahan, Timothy F.; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hitt, Lorin M. - 1999

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New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning

Angrist, Joshua - 1999

The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...

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