TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chong,Alberto
AU  - Gonzalez-Navarro,Marco
AU  - Karlan,Dean
AU  - Valdivia,Martin
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers’ Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - February 2013; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Across public junior high schools in 21 Colombian cities, we conducted a randomized evaluation of a mandatory six-month internet-based sexual education course. Six months after finishing the course, we find a 0.4 standard deviation improvement in knowledge, a 0.2 standard deviation improvement in attitudes, and a 55% increase in the likelihood of redeeming vouchers for condoms as a result of taking the course. We find no evidence of spillovers to control classrooms within treatment schools, and we find treatment effects are enhanced when a larger share of a student's friends also takes the course. The low cost of the online course along with the effectiveness we document suggests this technology is a viable alternative for improving sexual education in middle income countries
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w18776
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w18776
ER  -