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Computers and students' achievement: An analysis of the one laptop per child program in Catalonia Mora Corral, Antoni J. Escardíbul Ferrà, Josep Oriol Di Pietro, Giorgio Ensenyament assistit per ordinador Política educativa Educació secundària Catalunya Computer-assisted instruction Educational policy Secondary education Catalonia We analyse the impact of a One Laptop per Child program introduced by the Catalan government on student achievement. Using longitudinal population data for students in secondary education during the period 2009-2016, our identification strategy exploits variations across cohorts within schools. Although participation into the program was not random, we control for a number of school characteristics that influenced school participation. The empirical results consistently indicate that this program had a negative impact on student performance in Catalan, Spanish, English and mathematics. Test scores fell by 0.20-0.22 standardised points, which represent 3.8-6.2% of the average test score. This negative effect was stronger among boys than it was among girls (differences ranging from 10% to 42%). 2019-07-02T10:22:30Z 2019-07-02T10:22:30Z 2018 2019-07-02T10:22:31Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2018.09.013 International Journal of Educational Research, 2018, vol. 92, p. 145-157 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2018.09.013 cc-by-nc-nd (c) Mora et al., 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Elsevier Articles publicats en revistes (Economia)