{"id":10729,"date":"2015-03-26T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=10729"},"modified":"2015-03-26T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T17:52:10","slug":"the-empirical-result-taking-on-the-world-by-complete-lack-of-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/10729","title":{"rendered":"The Empirical Result Taking on the World By Complete Lack of Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Norton.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10733\" src=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Norton.gif\" alt=\"Norton\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This paper presents results from a randomized controlled trial\u00a0whereby approximately 1,000 One Laptop Per Child\u00a0XO laptops were provided\u00a0for home use to children attending primary schools in Lima, Peru.\u00a0The intervention increased access and use of home computers,\u00a0with some substitution away from computer use outside the home.\u00a0Children randomized to receive laptops scored about 0.8 standard\u00a0deviations higher in a test of XO proficiency but showed lower\u00a0academic effort as reported by teachers. <strong>There were no impacts\u00a0on academic achievement or cognitive skills as measured by the\u00a0Raven\u2019s Progressive Matrices test.<\/strong> Finally, there was little evidence\u00a0for spillovers within schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The abstract of a new <a title=\"Beuermann et al. (AEJ:Applied, 2015)\" href=\"http:\/\/pubs.aeaweb.org\/doi\/pdfplus\/10.1257\/app.20130267\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>\u00a0(ungated) by Diether Beuermann and coauthors in the latest issue of the <em>American Economic Journal: Applied Economics<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper presents results from a randomized controlled trial\u00a0whereby approximately 1,000 One Laptop Per Child\u00a0XO laptops were provided\u00a0for home use to children attending primary schools&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/10729\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Empirical Result Taking on the World By Complete Lack of Surprise<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-2N3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10734,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions\/10734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}