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View article: Research Insights: Do Children Benefit from Personal Laptops in the Long Run?
Research Insights: Do Children Benefit from Personal Laptops in the Long Run? Open
The OLPC program, designed by a team at the MIT Media Lab, aimed to improve educational outcomes among low-income primary students around the world by providing affordable personal laptops. The government of Peru launched its national OLPC…
View article: Research Insights: How Can Behavioral Nudges Be Leveraged to Boost Student Effort and Achievement?
Research Insights: How Can Behavioral Nudges Be Leveraged to Boost Student Effort and Achievement? Open
Highlighting streaks of consecutive activity significantly increased students engagement with an online math platform, particularly by encouraging frequent use by students who use the platform at least once. Students whose streaks were hig…
View article: Laptops in the Long-Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Laptops in the Long-Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru Open
This paper examines a large-scale randomized evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in 531 rural primary schools, as implemented by the Peruvian government starting in 2009. We use administrative and survey data on academic …
View article: Streaking to Success: The Effects of Highlighting Streaks on Student Effort and Achievement
Streaking to Success: The Effects of Highlighting Streaks on Student Effort and Achievement Open
We examine whether highlighting streaks encourages 4th to 6th grade students in Peru to increase their use of an online math platform and improve learning. Sixty thousand students were randomly assigned to receive messages that i) highligh…
View article: Research Insights: Do Children Benefit from Internet Access?
Research Insights: Do Children Benefit from Internet Access? Open
In Latin America and the Caribbean, there exists an important digital divide which can have important implications for children's educational development. In particular, many children in the region lack access to the internet at home, whic…
View article: Good Schools or Good Students?: Evidence on School Effects from Universal Random Assignment of Students to High Schools
Good Schools or Good Students?: Evidence on School Effects from Universal Random Assignment of Students to High Schools Open
How much do schools differ in their effectiveness? Recent studies that seek to answer this question account for student sorting using random assignment generated by central allocation mechanisms or oversubscribed schools. However, the resu…
View article: Replication data for: One Laptop per Child at Home: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru
Replication data for: One Laptop per Child at Home: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru Open
This paper presents results from a randomized controlled trial whereby approximately 1,000 OLPC XO laptops were provided for home use to children attending primary schools in Lima, Peru. The intervention increased access and use of home co…
View article: Does Vocational Education Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mongolia
Does Vocational Education Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mongolia Open
This paper estimates the impact of admission to formal vocational secondary programs on labor market outcomes in Mongolia. We conducted public lotteries to allocate scarce slots for approximately 8,000 students who applied to oversubscribe…
View article: Do Children Benefit from Internet Access?: Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country
Do Children Benefit from Internet Access?: Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country Open
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. Children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access are compared with i) those wh…
View article: Do Children Benefit from Internet Access? Experimental Evidence from Peru
Do Children Benefit from Internet Access? Experimental Evidence from Peru Open
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru.We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who di…
View article: The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health: Evidence from a Schooling Expansion in Romania
The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health: Evidence from a Schooling Expansion in Romania Open
This paper examines a schooling expansion in Romania which increased educational attainment for successive cohorts born between 1945 and 1950.We use a regression discontinuity design at the day level based on school entry cutoff dates to e…
View article: Parental Monitoring and ChildrenAS Internet Use: The Role of Information, Control, and Cues
Parental Monitoring and ChildrenAS Internet Use: The Role of Information, Control, and Cues Open
This paper explores how parental information and control can influence children’s internet use in Chile. We designed and implemented a set of randomized interventions whereby approximately 7700 parents were sent weekly SMSs messages with (…
View article: Parental Monitoring and Children's Internet Use: The Role of Information, Control, and Cues
Parental Monitoring and Children's Internet Use: The Role of Information, Control, and Cues Open
This paper explores how parental information and control can influence children's internet use in Chile.We designed and implemented a set of randomized interventions whereby approximately 7700 parents were sent weekly SMSs messages with (i…
View article: Interactions Between Family and School Environments: Evidence on Dynamic Complementarities?
Interactions Between Family and School Environments: Evidence on Dynamic Complementarities? Open
This paper explores whether conditions during early childhood affect the productivity of later human capital investments.We use Romanian administrative data to ask if the benefit of access to better schools is larger for children who exper…