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Entries Tagged "Human Capital"

Technology and Child Development: Evidence from One Laptop per Child Program in Peru

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

Tags: 1:1 computing 1:1 learning, academic achievement, academic software, Coding test, cognitive skills, computers in schools, Educational Outcomes, Evidence, Human Capital, IDB, Inter-American Development Bank, Language, Laptop, Math, objective data, OLPC, OLPC Peru, One Laptop Per Child, Peru, randomized evaluation, Raven’s Progressive Matrices, verbal fluency
Posted in OLPC in Peru | 23 Comments »

Do Computers and Internet Access at Home Reduce Student Test Scores?

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Tags: Home Computers, Household Internet Access, Human Capital, Jacob Vigdor, Low-Income Students, North Carolina, Ofer Malamud, Romania, Test Scores
Posted in Educational ICT at Home | 21 Comments »