The impact of banning mobile phones in Swedish secondary schools |
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| Institution: | 1. Södertörn University and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Sweden;2. Stockholm University, master''s program, Sweden;3. Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN),Stockholm University, Box 55665, 102 15 Stockholm, Sweden;1. Migration Policy Centre (RSCAS), European University Institute, Villa Malafrasca, Via Boccaccio 151, I-50133 Florence, Italy;2. Kiel University, and Head of Research Center ‘‘Poverty Reduction, Equity and Development’’, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, D-24105 Kiel, Germany;1. University of Ottawa;2. Stanford University, National Bureau of Economic Research |
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| Abstract: | Recently, policy makers worldwide have suggested and passed legislation to ban mobile phone use in schools. The influential (and only quantitative) evaluation by Beland and Murphy (2016), suggests that this is a very low-cost but effective policy to improve student performance. In particular, it suggests that the lowest-achieving students have the most to gain. Using a similar empirical setup but with data from Sweden, we partly replicate their study and thereby add external validity to this policy question. Furthermore, we increase the survey response rate of schools to approximately 75 %, although at the expense of the amount of information collected in the survey. In Sweden, we find no impact of mobile phone bans on student performance and can reject even small-sized gains. |
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