EdTech which includes online education, computer assisted learning (CAL), and remote instruction was expanding rapidly … even before the current full-scale substitution for in-person learning at all levels of education around the world because …-based instruction, but often additional non-technology based inputs such as more time on learning and instructional support by …

We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda … business than participants in control schools. The training induced students to participate more actively in their school … students to sustain their business activities during the COVID-19 crisis. …

learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of … four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …

2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required Introductory Economics course across twelve instructors to either … an online or in-person class. Final grades for online students dropped by 0.215 standard deviations; a result apparent in … both assignments and exams and largest for academically at-risk students. A post-course survey finds that online students …

conditional independence assumption and estimation is implemented using a recent double machine learning estimator. The study … sensitivity of estimates to tuning parameter choices in the machine learning part? (ii) How to assess covariate balancing in high …

school on both students' learning and mothers' labor supply. we rely on unique application-to-primary-school data: first, we … the groups of students and mothers for whom the effect seems to be larger are not those more likely to apply to the FT …

to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the …. Scores declined by an average of 14 percent of a standard deviation, roughly equal to seven months of learning. Losses were … greater for students in schools that faced relatively longer closures, boys, immigrants, and disadvantaged students …

We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic … academic performance increased their searches for e-learning tools more than higher-performing regions. Analysing school … administrative and survey data before the pandemic, we find that both teachers and students in lower performing regions were using no …

Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and … about their students' reading achievements by using a randomized controlled trial. We find that the teachers' baseline … beliefs are more important for low-SES students' academic performance, that the intervention makes the teachers update these …