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Direct linkBulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary contexts in which technology may be used for educational…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Software, Internet
Download full textFairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan – National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, 2013
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population--especially low-income and minority children--lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Credits, Evidence, Outcomes of Education
Peer reviewedFairlie, Robert W. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
Although a large literature explores the achievement gap between minority and non-minority students, very little is known about whether disparities in access to technology are partly responsible. Data from the first-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers to low-income community college students for home use are used…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Outcomes of Education, Minority Group Students
Fairlie, Robert W. – 2003
Approximately 9 out of 10 high school students who have access to a home computer use that computer to complete school assignments. Using the Computer and Internet Use Supplements to the 2001 Current Population Survey, this study explores whether access to home computers increases the likelihood of school enrollment among teenagers who have not…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research
Fairlie, Robert W. – 2002
This paper uses data from the Computer and Internet Use Supplement to the August 2000 Current Population Survey to explore causes of racial differences in computer ownership and Internet use rates. Overall, Mexican-Americans are one-half as likely to own computers and one-fourth as likely to use the Internet at home than are whites. The black home…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Blacks, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Attainment
Beltran, Daniel O.; Das, Kuntal K.; Fairlie, Robert W. – National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, 2006
Nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. The role of "home" computers in the educational process, however, has drawn very little attention in the previous literature. We use panel data from the two main U.S. datasets that include recent information on computer ownership among children--the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Extracurricular Activities, Assignments, Ownership
