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 …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … home computers and enrollment in transferable courses and actual transfers to 4-year colleges. The results from the field …

provides. We estimate the labor supply of physicians employed at hospitals in Norway, using personnel register data merged with …Physicians are key personnel in a sector which is important due to its size as well as the quality of service it … other public records. A dynamic labor supply equation is estimated using a sample of 1303 physicians observed over the …

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …

endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not only labor supply, but also education and retirement decisions. Actuarially … unfair pensions further exacerbate labor tax distortions on retirement. Education subsidies can nevertheless cushion the … adverse impact of taxation on skill formation. Feedbacks between education, labor supply, and retirement are important. The …

This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …

costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number of hospitals. With semi-altruistic providers and a fairly general cost …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …

Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect … effects of using computers to look up information and negative effects of using computers to practice skills, resulting in …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …