The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students forthcoming Economic Journal Robert W. Fairlie University of California‚ Santa Cruz rfairlie@ucsc.edu Rebecca A. London Stanford University rlondon@stanford.edu July 2011 We thank the Community Technology Foundation of California (ZeroDivide)‚ UCACCORD‚ and Computers for Classrooms‚ Inc. for funding. We thank Hardik Bhatt‚ Jesse Catlin‚ Eric Deveraux‚ Oliver
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Effects of Unemployment 2011 4/28/2011 High Crime Rate Linked to Low Wages and Unemployment Recent studies show that low wages and unemployment tend to make less educated people commit crimes. The study was done on data between 1979 and 1997‚ when comparing unemployment and crime rate we found much of the increase in crime happened during the time of falling wages and rising unemployment among men without college educations. While the government focuses on crime
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Bad Drinking Habits: Causes and Effects Drinking is something that majority of grown people‚ and even youngsters‚ would do for fun. It is really a mind thing that would occur in these human beings. Although drinking could be very fun‚ there are people that would drink for negative purposes. Some causes of bad drinking habits are having stressful problems‚ and just being influenced by others that would drink a lot. If people don’t have self-control of their drinking habits‚ it can become something
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distributors‚ and many other key players. Any distortion of this information can be very costly and may require permanent changes to a firm’s supply chain infrastructure. Perhaps the most infamous source of this demand data variability is the bullwhip effect. DEFINITION & CAUSES In 1990‚ executives at Proctor & Gamble noticed something odd about the ordering patterns for one of its most successful and well known products‚ Pampers diapers. Retail sales would always vary slightly from period to period
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earthquakes definitely stand out as the most widespread one. Even though most of the government takes measures to rout out earthquakes‚ they are disappointed. There are three main effect of earthquake is damaging to buildings‚ loss of human life and psychological effects to survivors. First‚ the most remarkable effect of earthquakes is loss of life. There can be more than thousand people buried in the wreckage is just because of earthquake and most of them definitely is death. For an example‚ there
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Zeigarnik Effect The Zeigarnik Effect is named after the Russian psychologist‚ Bluma Zeigarnik (1926)‚ who noticed an odd thing while sitting in a restaurant in Vienna. The waiters seemed only to remember orders which were in the process of being served‚ but little recollection of the completed orders. Zeigarnik went back to her lab to test out a theory about what was going on with the waiter. More than fifty years after the Bluma Zeigarnik study‚ Kenneth McGraw and his team returned to
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patients is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy in itself is as intricate as the cancer it treats‚ and has a few side effects that go along with it. Chemotherapy can be used to (Chemotherapy‚ 2015; How is Chemotherapy Used‚ 2016) shrink the size of cancerous tumors and kill cancer cells that are spreading. neoadjuvant
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Biological Effect Mechanisms of Damage Injury to living tissue results from the transfer of energy to atoms and molecules in the cellular structure. Ionizing radiation causes atoms and molecules to become ionized or excited. These excitations and ionizations can: * Produce free radicals. * Break chemical bonds. * Produce new chemical bonds and cross-linkage between macromolecules. * Damage molecules that regulate vital cell processes (e.g. DNA‚ RNA‚ proteins). The cell can repair
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rule the lives of children and teenagers all across Japan. Even though these cram schools can potentially help the students attending them learn more‚ there are also risks that the students may have to endure while going to juku. So what are the effects of competition and cramming on Japanese students? In order to more efficiently understand Japanese cram schools‚ one must know exactly what they are and intend to do. The U.S. Department of Education Study (2000) gives the definition that they are
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it was up to the managers to analysis tasks at hand to identify whether or not they could be performed more effectively. One of the most criticised and controversial investigations ever undertaken on workplace relations was known as the Hawthorne Effect. These studies were undertaken at the Bell Telephone Western Electric Manufacturing Plant in Chicago. The studies began in 1924 and continued through until the Depression in 1932. The purpose of the studies was to gain an insight on whether a workers
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