Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 5, Issue , 2016, Pages 239-280

  Bulman, G ^a   Fairlie, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers; Education; ICT; Internet; Schoolchildren; Software; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978221376     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63459-7.00005-1     Document Type: Chapter

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