This project is ongoing. Descriptions, methods and results may be updated after further validation.
Research question
Did the installation of computer laboratories by ProInfo Integrado raise the Ideb index and Saeb scores of the public schools it reached?
Motivation
Brazil invested for more than a decade in equipping public schools with computers. Knowing whether that investment translated into learning, and with what degree of confidence, informs new rounds of educational-technology policy.
Data
- FNDE administrative records on laboratory delivery and installation
- School Census, Ideb and Saeb (Inep), panels of primary and lower-secondary schools
Methodology
- Staggered-adoption difference-in-differences (Callaway and Sant'Anna) with not-yet-treated schools as controls
- Sensitivity analysis (HonestDiD), placebos and alternative treatment-timing definitions
Limitations
- Manuscript at the pre-submission stage; results will be released after peer review.
Implications
- Evaluation of educational-technology programmes and of the opportunity cost of equipment.
- Caveats for staggered difference-in-differences under near-universal adoption.
Planned applied products (possible outreach, subject to registration)
- Teaching material on education-policy evaluation for Economics courses