Home computers and educational outcomes: Evidence from the NLSY97 and cps

Economic Inquiry

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 771-792

  Fairlie, Robert W ^a   Beltran, Daniel O ^b   Das, Kuntal K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bd of Governors of the Fed Reserve   (United States)

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EID: 77954829399     PISSN: 00952583     EISSN: 14657295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2009.00218.x     Document Type: Article

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