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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate … models that include both student and classroom fixed effects and focus on students with limited choice in courses. We find … students falls by 20 to 50 percent when taught by an underrepresented minority instructor. We also find these interactions …
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use in schools, and ii) home use by students. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of …
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one income source is risky. I test the theory by measuring the response of Thai rice farmers to conditional volatility in …
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …
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computers to students. Although computer ownership and use increased substantially, we find no effects on any educational …
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