TY - JOUR TI - Books or laptops? The effect of shifting from printed to digital delivery of educational content on learning AU - Bando, Rosangela AU - Gallego, Francisco AU - Gertler, Paul AU - Fonseca, Dario Romero T2 - Economics of Education Review AB - Information and communication technologies can be used for educational purposes, but these devices may also pose as distractors that may tamper with the learning process. This paper presents results from a randomized controlled trial in which laptops replaced traditional textbook provision in elementary schools in high poverty communities in Honduras. We show that at the end of one school year, we fail to reject that there were no differences between laptop and textbook provision on mathematics and Spanish test scores and in non-academic outcomes related to coding and verbal fluency. DA - 2017/12/01/ PY - 2017 DO - 10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.07.005 DP - ScienceDirect VL - 61 SP - 162 EP - 173 J2 - Economics of Education Review LA - en SN - 0272-7757 ST - Books or laptops? UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775716307245 Y2 - 2020/05/20/14:18:47 KW - Computers KW - E-learning KW - Education KW - RCT KW - Technology KW - Textbooks ER -