Home Computers and School Performance. This paper assesses the effects of home computers on school performance, and examines inequalities in educational payoff among those children who have home computers. We find that having a home computer is associated with higher test scores in mathematics and reading, even after controlling for family income, and for cultural and social capital. However, children from high socio-economic status homes achieve larger educational gains from home computers than lower SES children. Boys' performance advantage is larger than girls'.
Ethnic minorities gain far less of a performance boost than whites.