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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D. - 2004

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 …

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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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Evidence on Learning and Network Externalities in the Diffusion of Home Computers

Goolsbee, Austan - 1999

but do seem to be highly tied to the use of e-mail and the Internet, consistent with computers being part of a local …

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Measuring the Welfare Gain from Personal Computers : A Macroeconomic Approach

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2007

The welfare gain to consumers from the introduction of personal computers is estimated here. A simple model of consumer demand is formulated that uses a slightly modified version of standard preferences. The modification permits marginal utility, and hence total utility, to be finite when the...

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Why Do Computers Depreciate?

Geske, Michael J. - 2004

The value of installed computers falls rapidly and therefore computers have a very high user cost. The paper provides a complete account of the non-financial user cost of personal computers -- decomposing it into replacement cost change, obsolescence, instantaneous depreciation, and age-related...

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Faster, Smaller, Cheaper : An Hedonic Price Analysis of PDAs

Chwelos, Paul D. - 2004

We compute quality-adjusted price indexes for Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) for the period 1999-2004, using data on prices and characteristics of 203 models sold by 12 manufacturers. The PDA market is growing in size, it is technologically dynamic with very substantial changes in measured...

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How Fast Do Personal Computers Depreciate? Concepts and New Estimates

Doms, Mark E. - 2004

This paper provides new estimates of depreciation rates for personal computers using an extensive database of prices of used PCs. Our results show that PCs lose roughly half their remaining value, on average, with each additional year of use. We decompose that decline into age-related...

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Hedonic Price Indexes for Personal Computer Operating Systems and Productivity Suites

White, Alan G. - 2004

Results of hedonic price regressions for personal computer operating systems and productivity suites advertised in PC World magazine by retail vendors during the time period 1984 to 2000 are reported. Among the quality attribute variables we use are new measures capturing the presence of network...

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Hedonic Price Indexes with Unobserved Product Characteristics, and Application to PC's

Benkard, C. Lanier - 2003

We show that hedonic price indexes may be biased when not all product characteristics are observed. We derive two primary sources of bias. The first is a classical selection problem that arises due to changes over time in the values of unobserved characteristics. The second comes from changes in...

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