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 …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …

, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender. We find that … teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We explore various … mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance (including …

In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …

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 … “intermediate” inputs in education for treatment students. …

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 …

-stakes game, and controlling for performance differences, there is no gender gap in risk-taking among girls and boys in contrast …