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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, U.S. institutions of higher education began to address long-standing patterns of exclusion. Initial efforts to improve the access of black students to engineering education focused on six historically black engineering colleges, and evolved into a truly nationwide...
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Does academic economic research produce material of scientific value, or are academic economists writing only for clients and peers? Is economics scholarship uniquely insular? We address these questions by quantifying interactions between economics and other disciplines. Changes in the impact of...
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We compare outcomes obtained by sellers who listed their home on a newly developed For-Sale-By-Owner (FSBO) web site versus those who used an agent and the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). We do not find support for the hypothesis that listing on the MLS helps sellers obtain a significantly...
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The rapid rise in sales over the Internet has generated debate over the taxation of such transactions since the buyers … the effects that local sales taxes have on Internet commerce. The results show that, controlling for many observable … characteristics, people who live in locations with high sales taxes are significantly more likely to buy things over the Internet. The …
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The effect of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines is analyzed using differentiated product demand models estimated on panel data that cover the period 1990 2000. Descriptive evidence on the magazines' website contents suggests that websites are used to provide...
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Internet and communications investment in schools starting in 1998. The program subsidized spending by 20-90 percent, depending … Internet investment. The implied first-dollar price elasticity of demand for Internet investment is between -0.9 and -2.2 and … about 66 percent more Internet classrooms than there would have been without the subsidy. Using a variety of test score …
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Ad blockers allow Internet users to obtain information without generating ad revenue for site owners; and by 2016 they …
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This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction … versus watching these same lectures in an internet setting, where all other factors (e.g., instruction, supplemental …-experimental analyses of internet instruction in higher education, we find modest evidence that live-only instruction dominates internet …
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Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments, as they provide immediate access to a large and diverse subject pool and allow researchers to conduct randomized controlled trials. We argue that online experiments can be just as valid - both internally and...
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We use individual and aggregate data to ask how the Internet is changing the ideological segregation of the American … evidence that the Internet is becoming more segregated over time …
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