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 …

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 … to home computers and enrollment in transferable courses and actual transfers to 4-year colleges.  The results from the …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …

so. In this paper we develop an economic theory of unhealthy food choice, and use a Discrete Choice Experiment to … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … theoretical prediction that part of the education differences across health behaviours is driven by the "marginal value of health …

. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …

evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low … level of education are increasingly sorting into internally homogenous marriages. When looking within the group of college …