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The effect of home computer use on children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Fiorini Mario (Elsevier, 2010)

In this paper we investigate the effect of using a home computer on children¿s development. In most OECD countries 70% or more of the households have a computer at home and children use computers quite extensively, even ...
Fostering educational enrolment through subsidies: The issue of timing

Fiorini Mario (John Wiley and Sons, 2012)

The purpose of this paper is to build a dynamic structural model of educational choices in which cognitive skills shape decisions. The model is estimated by maximum likelihood using cohort data where individuals are observed ...
Stochastic monotonicity in intergenerational mobility tables

Dardanoni Valentino; Fiorini Mario; Forcina Antonio (John Wiley and Sons, 2012)

The aim of this paper is to test for stochastic monotonicity in intergenerational socio-economic mobility tables. In other words, we question whether having a parent from a high socio-economic status is never worse than ...
Who gets the 'gift of time' in Australia? Exploring delayed primary school entry

Edwards Ben; Taylor Matthew; Fiorini Mario (School of Economics and Political Science, The University of Sydney, 2011)

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