Home internet access and child development: Evidence from Peru
A new column by Ofer Malamud, Associate Professor at Northwestern University, Santiago Cueto, Executive Director at GRADE, Julián Cristia, Lead Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, and Diether W. Beuermann, Senior Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, summarizes the experimental evidence of the impact of home internet access in child outcomes in Peru, reported in the article Do children benefit from internet access? Experimental evidence from Peru. The authors find that while those selected to receive a laptop did improve their digital skills, an increased access to the internet at home did not improve academic achievement, cognitive or socio-emotional skills. The column has been published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
