Hessel Oosterbeek

Hessel Oosterbeek

Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam · Researcher, VU Amsterdam

Returns to computer use: a simple test on the productivity interpretation

Hessel Oosterbeek

Economics Letters 55, 273-277 (1997)

This paper finds that returns from computer use do not vary with the intensity of computer use. This is evidence against the productivity interpretation of these returns and supports the view that returns from computer use can be attributed to unobserved heterogeneity.

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