The Effect of Computer-Assisted Learning on Students' Long-Term Development

Nicola Bianchi, Yi Lu and Hong Song

No 28180, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: In this paper, we examine the effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development. We explore the implementation of the “largest ed-tech intervention in the world to date,” which connected China’s best teachers to more than 100 million rural students through satellite internet. We find evidence that exposure to the program improved students’ academic achievement, labor performance, and computer usage. We observe these effects up to ten years after program implementation. These findings indicate that education technology can have long-lasting positive effects on a variety of outcomes and can be effective in reducing the rural–urban education gap.

JEL-codes: I24 I26 I28 O15 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-12
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Published as Nicola Bianchi & Yi Lu & Hong Song, 2022. "The effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development," Journal of Development Economics, .

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