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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

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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The Effects of Home Computers on School Enrollment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

computers are enrolled in school. Controlling for family income, parental education, parental occupation and other observable …

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Geographic Information System - Modern Teaching Method in Business Administration

Albăstroiu, Irina; Felea, Mihai; Vasiliu, Cristinel - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 16 (2014) 37, pp. 770-770

paper is to examine how GIS applications contribute to the education field but also to present the limitations of their use …

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Productiivity Convergence among OECD Countries: The Postwar Experience

Wolff, Edward N. - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 17-22

investment, education, and R&D in OECD countries accounting for the catch-up. The process of convergence seems to have ended in …

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Evidence on wage inequality, worker education, and technology

Wheeler, Christopher H. - In: Review (2005) May, pp. 375-393

between the two. This paper explores the relationship among inequality, worker education levels, and workplace computer usage …

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Technological Change, investment in Human Capital, and Economic Growth.

Kim, J.Y.; Lee, J.W. - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - 2000

This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the effects of technology change on growth rates of income and human … new technologies as well as that of the process of human capital production. In our model an increase in the technology …

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U.S. wages in general equilibrium: the effects of prices, technology and factor supplies, 1963-1991

Harrigan, James; Balaban, Rita A. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1999

causes are changes in technology, international competition, and factor supplies. The relative importance of these causes in … competitive general equilibrium where goods prices, technology and factor supplies jointly determine outputs and factor prices. We … specify an empirical model which allows us to estimate the general equilibrium relationship between wages and technology …

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Are Computers Good for Children? The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes

Beltran, Daniel O.; Das, Kuntal K.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

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...

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Introduction

Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike - Princeton University Press

incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of …

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The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It

Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike - Princeton University Press

incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of …

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