The welfare gain to consumers from the introduction of personal computers is estimated here. A simple model of consumer …, and hence total utility, to be finite when the consumption of computers is zero, implying that the good won't be consumed … estimated using standard national income and product account data. The welfare gain from the introduction of personal computers …

the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …

technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school …

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 …

first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … home computers and enrollment in transferable courses and actual transfers to 4-year colleges. The results from the field … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

Computers are deterministic devices, and a computer-generated random number is a contradiction in terms. As a result …