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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
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This note contains an empirical analysis of the decision of German-speaking business scholars to boycott and opt out of the best known research ranking of business scholars, initiated and published by Germany’s largest business daily, Handelsblatt. Our analysis indicates that scientists who...
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This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when … technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped transition dynamic, so that an initial boom in share price is followed … by a temporary fall in share price even though the underlying technology is improving. …
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We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …
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This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
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greater selfishness is due to economics education. This paper offers empirical evidence against this widely held belief. Using … that economics education does not make people act more selfishly. Rather, this natural experiment suggests that the …
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-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level of human capital it is shown that a less efficient schooling technology … partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-tax inequality if it spent more on education. …
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computer use for education and communication at home show a positive conditional relationship with student achievement. The …
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