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Job tasks, computer use, and the decreasing part-time pay penalty for women in the UK
Elsayed, Ahmed; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier - 2014
-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full … computer use and job tasks together explain more than 50 percent of the decrease in the part-time pay penalty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337412
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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2013
clear for the effects on actual transfers to 4-year colleges and the probability of using a computer to search for college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221544
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor) - 2006
The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253455
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The returns to computer use revisited, again
Dostie, Benoît (contributor);  … - 2006
Pischke (1997) of whether there exists a real wage differential associated with computer use. Employing a mixed effects model … that computer users enjoy an almost 4 per cent wage premium over non-users. Failure to correct for the worker selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384994
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Experimental evidence on the effects of home computers on academic achievement among schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - 2013
minority children - lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by … computer ownership and use, we find no effects on any educational outcomes, including grades, standardized test scores, credits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715023
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Virtually no effect? : different uses of classroom computers and their effect on student achievement
Falck, Oliver; Mang, Constantin; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices … exploit within-student between-subject variation in different computer uses in the international TIMSS test. We find positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501863