Are home computers are an important input in the educational production function? To address this question, we conduct … a field experiment involving the provision of free computers to schoolchildren for home use. Low-income children … attending middle and high schools in 15 schools in California were randomly selected to receive free computers and followed over …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … computers to students. Although computer ownership and use increased substantially, we find no effects on any educational … evidence showing no change in homework time or other "intermediate" inputs in education. …

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 …

Although computers are universal in the classroom, nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have … computers in their homes. Surprisingly, only a few previous studies explore the role of home computers in the educational … process. Home computers might be very useful for completing school assignments, but they might also represent a distraction …

themselves. The use of technologies in education is not a magic and rapid solution through which educational problems and …

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 …

schools with at least 70 percent pupils from different disadvantaged groups extra funding for computers and software. The …

multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are more likely to use computers than the Australian born. As the level of computer …

generic skills. Going beyond the technology, I investigate whether organisational changes requiring greater employee … communication skills and self-planning skills. These effects are found to be independent of the effect of computers on generic …