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There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational … first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … attending a large community college in Northern California were randomly selected to receive free computers and were followed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723534
There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational … first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … attending a large community college in Northern California were randomly selected to receive free computers and were followed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130611
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 … home computers and enrollment in transferable courses and actual transfers to 4-year colleges. The results from the field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888455
colleges for low-income community college students.  This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … the 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843018
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 … home computers and enrollment in transferable courses and actual transfers to 4-year colleges. The results from the field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884302
This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the effects of technology change on growth rates of income and human … new technologies as well as that of the process of human capital production. In our model an increase in the technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486871
of the education programme are studied in order to evaluate the attractiveness of careers in science and technology and …This paper looks at the early careers of science and technology graduates in Canada using three waves on the National … Graduates Surveys. Employment rates, earning levels, job satisfaction, the job-education skill match, and the overall evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005625371
How does the rate at which firms adopt new technologies affect the level of education and training of a country … would be the optimum level of education spending in front of a faster arrival of new technologies? This paper tries to … answer these questions by developing an endogenous growth model with creative 'wear and tear' in which general education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786739
In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully completed their programs in Canadian community colleges (CEGEPs in Quebec) in 1990 and 1995. Over...
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In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post …-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of education at community colleges. I examine the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822689