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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. - CESifo - 2014
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 … colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888455
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - CESifo - 2013
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …,123 schoolchildren grades 6-10 in 15 California schools participated in the experiment. Although the program significantly increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627567
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …,123 schoolchildren grades 6-10 in 15 California schools participated in the experiment. Although the program significantly increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674530
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Academic achievement, technology and race: Experimental evidence
Fairlie, Robert W. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 663-679
known about whether disparities in access to technology are partly responsible. Data from the first-ever field experiment … involving the random provision of free computers to low-income community college students for home use are used to explore … whether home computers are beneficial to minority students. I find that minority students receiving free computers achieved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010594759
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2013
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … whether this impedes educational achievement by conducting the largest-ever field experiment that randomly provides free home … computers to students. Although computer ownership and use increased substantially, we find no effects on any educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843013
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Access to Techonology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2013
the first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access … field experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher … colleges for low-income community college students.  This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843018
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Income Inequality, TFP, and Human Capital
Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
capital, technology and trade to inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109094
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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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Slavery, racial inequality, and education
Bertocchi, Graziella - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) February, pp. 1-10
Income inequality is a critical issue in both political and public debate. Educational attainment is a key causal factor of continuing inequality, since it influences human capital accumulation and, as a consequence, the unequal distribution of earnings. Educational inequality displays a racial...
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The effects of tax policy and labour market institutions on income inequality
Obadic, Alka; Simurina, Nika; Sonora, Robert - In: Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u … 32 (2014) 1, pp. 121-140
The purpose of this research is to investigate how labor market institutions and regulations and tax policies effect income inequality across the European member countries. The sample contains the fifteen core European Union (EU) members as well as thirteen Central and Eastern European (CEE)...
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