| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21306 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21306 |
| ICT and Education: Evidence from Student Home Addresses | |
| Benjamin Faber; Rosa Sanchis-Guarner; Felix Weinhardt | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-06-29 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Governments are making it a priority to upgrade information and communication technologies (ICT) with the aim to increase available internet connection speeds. This paper presents a new empirical strategy to estimate the causal effects of these policies, and applies it to the questions of whether and how ICT upgrades affect educational attainment. We draw on a rich collection of microdata that allows us to link administrative test score records for the population of English primary and secondary school students to the available ICT at their home addresses. To base estimations on exogenous variation in ICT, we notice that the boundaries of usually invisible telephone exchange station catchment areas give rise to substantial and essentially randomly placed jumps in the available ICT across neighboring residences. Using this design across more than 20,000 boundaries in England, we find that even large changes in available broadband connection speeds have a precisely estimated zero effect on educational attainment. Guided by a simple model we then bring to bear additional microdata on student time and internet use to quantify the potentially opposing mechanisms underlying the zero reduced form effect. While jumps in the available ICT appear to increase student consumption of online content, we find no significant effects on student time spent studying online or offline, or on their learning productivity. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Economics of Information ; International Economics ; Globalization and International Relations ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21306 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578981 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Benjamin Faber,Rosa Sanchis-Guarner,Felix Weinhardt. ICT and Education: Evidence from Student Home Addresses. 2015. |
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