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 …

impact of a one-to-one technology program implemented on a large scale over a multiyear period. With administrative school …

computers at home have ambiguous implications for educational achievement: expenditures devoted to technology necessarily offset …A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving … educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational …

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families, and policymakers with the hope of improving … educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational … outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary contexts in which technology may be used for educational purposes: (i …

technologies. Because technological progress in general, and computers in particular, may be skill-biased and because human capital … experience and technology adoption and the effect of technological change on the returns to experience. Estimates indicate that …

primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …

workers' level of education. Using rm-level panel data covering the period 2002 to 2008, I estimate complementarities among … workers' level of education and a large set of organizational practices aggregated into three domains: decentralization … education: no post-compulsory education, upper-secondary vocational education and train- ing, tertiary vocational education, and …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …