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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …
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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …
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computers at home have ambiguous implications for educational achievement: expenditures devoted to technology necessarily offset …
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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 …
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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011564646
In recent years, a plethora of public and private programs in the United States have been created to close the "Digital Divide." Interestingly, however, we know very little about the underlying causes of racial differences in rates of computer and Internet access. In this paper, I use data from...
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Over the coming century, computer technology is likely to become capable of reproducing many of the skills now performed by human labor. This paper describes three models of the aggregate economic changes that occur when capital becomes capable of performing human work skills. The basic model,...
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Nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. The role of home computers in …. Teenagers who have access to home computers are 6 to 8 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school than teenagers … who do not have home computers after controlling for individual, parental, and family characteristics. We generally find …
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Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries and across developing countries. To identify the...
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Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … such as computers, cell-phones, and generators succeeds in mitigating the costs of business obstacles. For male-owned firms …
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