RT Journal Article
T1 One Laptop per Child? Using Production Frontiers for Evaluating the Escuela2.0 Program in Spain
A1 Feliciano, Daniel
A1 López-Torres, Laura
A1 Santín González, Daniel
AB Over the last few decades, public programs have driven the gradual adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education. The most ambitious project in Spain so far was Escuela 2.0, which provided students from the regions that opted into the program with laptops. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of this program on school performance and productivity. To do this, we developed a new methodological approach based on combining causal inference techniques and the analysis of production frontiers. We calculated the differences in productivity and performance between treated and control schools using the base-group Camanho–Dyson Malmquist index and the base-group performance gap index. We estimate the impact of the program as the variation of these differences, following the essence of the difference-in-differences analysis. The main results are that Escuela 2.0 had a negative impact on performance and productivity.
SN 2227-7390
YR 2021
FD 2021-10-15
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/5015
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/5015
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025