Previous economic experiments on dual-process reasoning in altruistic decisions have yielded inconclusive results. However, these studies do not create a conflict between affective and cognitive motives, resulting in imperfect identification. We interact standard cognitive and affective...

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...

Approximately 9 out of 10 high school students who have access to a home computer use that computer to complete school assignments. Do these home computers, however, improve educational outcomes? Using the Computer and Internet Use Supplement to the 2001 Current Population Survey, I explore...