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Experimental evidence on the effects of home computers on academic achievement among schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - 2013
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population - especially low-income and … negative impacts. The estimated null effect is consistent with survey evidence showing no change in homework time or other … intermediate inputs in education for treatment students. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293226
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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2013
There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328794
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Experimental evidence on the effects of home computers on academic achievement among schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - 2013
evidence showing no change in homework time or other intermediate inputs in education. …Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369489
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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges: Evidence from a field experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369496
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398516
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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does It Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345364
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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does it Contribute to why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388170
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Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
effects. Early research focused on developed countries while more recently several experiments have been conducted in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401697
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011564646
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The Effects of Computers on Children's Social Development and School Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Control Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kalil, Ariel - 2016
Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584929