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 …

the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …

impact of a one-to-one technology program implemented on a large scale over a multiyear period. With administrative school …

We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal … data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … own retirement significantly increases the amounts of home production. There are negative cross-effects of retirement on …

Transitioning into retirement is an under-researched phenomenon in developing countries. Largely, this is linked to a … conditions on retirement, it induces a pure income effect on employment. Using data from the China Health and Retirement … retirement among the rural elderly by around 15%. …

a significant predictor of retirement among employees while underemployed employees are less likely to retire. …

to identify the effect of local availability of foreign workers on planned retirement age and labor supply of Italian … planned retirement age of women over 55 by two months relative to similar men. For women with old parents the increase was …