Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement

Jacob L. Vigdor, Helen F. Ladd

NBER Working Paper No. 16078
Issued in June 2010

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We thank the William T. Grant Foundation, the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, and Institute for Education Sciences for research support, Jon Guryan, Jesse Shapiro, Tim Smeeding, Andrew Leigh, and seminar participants at the University of Michigan, the University of Florida, Cornell University, the University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of Toronto, Georgetown University, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Syracuse University, the Australian National University, the University of South Australia, and Deakin University for helpful comments on earlier drafts, and Rahul Kumar, Erika Martinez, and Sandra Nay for exceptional research assistance. Remaining errors are the authors' responsibility. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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