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The impact of banning mobile phones in Swedish secondary schools
Economics of Education Review ( IF 2.083 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 , DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2020.102009
Dany Kessel , Hulda Lif Hardardottir , Björn Tyrefors

Recently, policy makers worldwide have suggested and passed legislation to ban mobile phone use in schools. The influential (and only quantitative) evaluation by Beland and Murphy (2016), suggests that this is a very low-cost but effective policy to improve student performance. In particular, it suggests that the lowest-achieving students have the most to gain. Using a similar empirical setup but with data from Sweden, we partly replicate their study and thereby add external validity to this policy question. Furthermore, we increase the survey response rate of schools to approximately 75 %, although at the expense of the amount of information collected in the survey. In Sweden, we find no impact of mobile phone bans on student performance and can reject even small-sized gains.



中文翻译:

瑞典中学禁止使用手机的影响

最近,全球的决策者已经建议并通过了禁止在学校中使用手机的立法。Beland和Murphy(2016)进行的有影响力的(且仅是定量的)评估表明,这是提高学生成绩的非常低成本但有效的政策。特别是,这表明成绩最低的学生获得的收益最大。使用类似的经验设置,但使用瑞典的数据,我们部分复制了他们的研究,从而对该政策问题增加了外部效度。此外,尽管牺牲了在调查中收集到的信息量,我们仍将学校的调查回复率提高到大约75%。在瑞典,我们发现手机禁令对学生的表现没有影响,甚至可以拒绝小额收益。

更新日期:2020-06-23
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