computers at home have ambiguous implications for educational achievement: expenditures devoted to technology necessarily offset …A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving … educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational …

computers at home have ambiguous implications for educational achievement: expenditures devoted to technology necessarily offset …A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving … educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational …

Nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. The role of home computers in …. Teenagers who have access to home computers are 6 to 8 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school than teenagers … who do not have home computers after controlling for individual, parental, and family characteristics. We generally find …

Nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. The role of home computers in …. Teenagers who have access to home computers are 6 to 8 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school than teenagers … who do not have home computers after controlling for individual, parental, and family characteristics. We generally find …

Education in every sense is one of the fundamental factors of development. No country can achieve sustainable economic … development without substantial investment in human capital. Education enriches people’s understanding of themselves and world. It … improves the quality of their lives and leads to broad social benefits to individuals and society. Education raises people …

There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational … first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … attending a large community college in Northern California were randomly selected to receive free computers and were followed …

computers are enrolled in school. Controlling for family income, parental education, parental occupation and other observable … assignments. Do these home computers, however, improve educational outcomes? Using the Computer and Internet Use Supplement to the … 2001 Current Population Survey, I explore whether access to home computers increases the likelihood of school enrollment …

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some …

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some …