The impact of digital skills on educational outcomes: evidence from performance tests
Digital skills are increasingly important for labor market outcomes and social participation. Do they also matter for academic performance? This paper investigates the effects of digital literacy on educational outcomes by merging data from the Italian National Assessment in secondary schools with an original data set on performance tests of Internet skills for 10th grade students. [The authors] identification strategy relies on a rich set of individual, family, school and classroom control variables that are not commonly available in previous studies. The findings indicate that, overall, Inte... Show more
Authors: Pagani, Laura; Argentin, Gianluca; Gui, Marco; Stanca, Luca
Published: Milan, Italy, University of Milan-Bicocca, 2015
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 32 p.
Access item: http://repec.dems.unimib.it/repec/pdf/mibwpaper304.pdf
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