Replication data for: One Laptop per Child at Home: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Diether W. Beuermann; Julian Cristia; Santiago Cueto; Ofer Malamud; Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo

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Project Citation:

Beuermann, Diether W., Cristia, Julian, Cueto, Santiago, Malamud, Ofer, and Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannu. Replication data for: One Laptop per Child at Home: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113587V1

Project Description

Summary: 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 computers, with some substitution away from computer use outside the home. Children randomized to receive laptops scored about 0.8 standard deviations higher in a test of XO proficiency but showed lower academic effort as reported by teachers. There were no impacts on academic achievement or cognitive skills as measured by the Raven's Progressive Matrices test. Finally, there was little evidence for spillovers within schools. (JEL I21, I28, J13, O15)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: education; experiments; technology

JEL Classification:
      I21 Analysis of Education
      I28 Education: Government Policy
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

Geographic Coverage: Peru

Time Period(s): 2010 – 2010 (2019)

Data Type(s): survey data; experimental data

Methodology

Data Source: Collected by the research team.

Unit(s) of Observation: Student,

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V2 [2024-03-28]

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