Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test whether this impedes educational achievement by conducting the largest-ever field experiment that randomly provides free home computers to students. Although computer ownership...

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

Using 1985-1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages we confirm the hypothesis that existing computer wage premiums are determined by individual ability or other unobserved individual characteristics rather than by productivity effects. While a rather large...

Mit einem jährlichen Beschaffungsvolumen von rund 20 Milliarden Euro an IT-Mitteln stellt die öffentliche Hand einen bedeutenden Marktfaktor dar, der für eine sozial verantwortliche Nachfrage genutzt werden sollte. Eine Beschaffung von tatsächlich (weitestgehend) unter Beachtung sozialer...