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Detailed Information

Country	Country: United States
GDP per capita	53.645
Context details	N/A
Age	Grades 6-10

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2008
Implementer	Researchers
Duration (months)	12
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	Provision of computers to schoolchildren for home use

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	Individual

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Grades 6-10	Enrollment	N/A	N/A	1123	Coeff: 1.00; SE: 2.00; SD: 100.00

Study	Fairlie, Robert W., and Jonathan Robinson. "Experimental evidence on the effects of home computers on academic achievement among schoolchildren." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. 19060 (2013).