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Home Computers Hurt Students

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor have a new CALDER Center/NBER working paper looking at how home computers and broadband access help students. (Interestingly, an earlier version of the same paper listed Charles Clotfelter as a third author.) Turns out that home computers harm students: Do students' basic academic skills improve when they have access to a computer at home? Has the introduction of high?speed internet access, which expands the set of productive tasks for which home computers might be used, caused further improvements? This paper addresses these questions by studying administrative data covering the population of North Carolina public school students between 2000 and 2005, a period when home computer access expanded noticeably, and the availability of home high?speed internet rose dramatically...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on June 21, 2010 (boomark / email).