Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73776 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 8
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
We estimate the relationship between computers and students’ educational achievement in the international student-level PISA database. Bivariate analyses show a positive correlation between achievement and computer availability both at home and at school. However, once we control extensively for family background and school characteristics, the relationship gets negative for home computers and insignificant for school computers. Thus, mere availability of computers at home seems to distract students from effective learning. But achievement shows a positive conditional relationship with computer use for education and communication at home and an inverted U-shaped relationship with computer and internet use at school.
Subjects: 
Computers at home
computers at school
student achievement
educational production
PISA
JEL: 
I20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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