Economics
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Kids with access to a home computer are more likely to graduate, digital divide study finds
Access to a home computer increases the likelihood that children will graduate from high school, but blacks and Latinos are much less likely to have a computer at home than are whites, according to a new study by a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, that also found the digital divide is even…
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Economics Department at UC Santa Cruz ranked ninth in world in international finance
The Economics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was ranked ninth in the world in the field of international finance in a survey of more than 300 public and private research universities. The ranking is based on the research productivity of faculty as measured by scholarly publications in 63 academic journals from 1993…