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Ofer Malamud, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago, is the co-author of a study that investigated educational outcomes after low-income families received vouchers to help them buy computers.

�We found a negative effect on academic achievement,� he said. �I was surprised, but as we presented our findings at various seminars, people in the audience said they weren�t surprised, given their own experiences with their school-age children.�

Y'don't say? smirk

NOT news to anyone with a child who has a laptop of his/her own between the ages of 10 and 16, I'd say.


Schr�dinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.