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 … evidence showing no change in homework time or other "intermediate" inputs in education. …

technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school …. We investigate how 1:1 computer technology impacts student performance in primary school in Sweden, using data from an … implementing 1:1 technology. Nevertheless, all positive impacts in subgroups appear to be rather small, amounting to 0.01-0.03 SD …

implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … this technology to send automated text-message alerts to parents about their child's missed assignments, grades and class … increases parent monitoring. Our results show that this type of automated technology can improve student effort relatively …

differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial … and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients …-Oaxaca decomposition ; race ; gender …

technology affects the formal economic participation of women. The focus is on 48 African countries for the period 1990-2014. The … results show that improving communication technology increases female economic participation with the following consistent …

This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic … participation, female unemployment and female employment rates. The engaged ICT variables are: fixed broadband subscriptions, mobile …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population - especially low-income and … "intermediate" inputs in education for treatment students. -- computers ; education ; experiment … conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …