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Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers’ Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia (2020)
Journal article · The World Bank Economic Review · 34(2), 371–392
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Academic Grade-Incentivized Curriculum Compliance
"To incentivize course completion, each school participating in the course included these grades as a component of the grade of one school subject, typically computer education."
Anonymous Remote Counseling via Digital Platforms
"Profamilia's course takes full advantage of Internet connectivity to provide an interactive experience and responsive, anonymous counseling... These features aim to create a safe social environment for adolescents to discuss sensitive topics."
Attitude Decay Divergence from Knowledge Retention
"It also generates a 0.24 improvement in an index of sexual attitudes at course completion, and a 0.17 standard deviation improvement after six months."
Absence of Behavioral Licensing in Sexual Health Education
"The data do not provide evidence that the online course increased sexual activity, which together with the increased condom demand result suggests that the course results in improved sexual practice or at least safe-sex preparedness."
Existing Computer Lab Infrastructure Leverage
"It complements this literature by showing that, once computers have been installed in schools, structured Internet courses-at least for sexual education-can have significant effects."
Friendship Network Social Reinforcement
"However, the analysis provides compelling evidence that treatment effects are enhanced when a larger share of a student's friends also takes the course."
STI Prevention Benefit-Cost Optimization
"The headline result is that the course averts one STI at a cost of $455, indicating a benefit-to-cost ratio of 1.72, well above one. This implies that the course is socially desirable, even with typical deadweight loss factors due to taxation."
Scalable Internet-Based Sexual Health Curriculum
"Information and communication technologies (ICTs) for sexual education hence hold promise to improve school-based sexual education along three dimensions: reducing loss of effectiveness when scaling up, reducing costs of implementation, and overcoming educator reluctance to present sexual education material."
Absence of Within-School Cross-Classroom Spillovers
"The results do not provide any indication of classroom-level spillovers within the same school, which suggests for policy purposes that programs should target entire cohorts, not a subset of classrooms with expectations of spillovers leading indirectly to treatment."
Long-Term Knowledge Retention Stability in EdTech
"The effects are practically identical at completion of the course and six months later, suggesting little decay in knowledge."
Objective Behavioral Metric via Voucher Redemption
"The condom voucher makes it possible to avoid obvious problems with self-reported sexual behavior data, and follows O'Donnell et al. (1995) and Thornton (2008)."
Pre-Sexual Debut Curriculum Timing Strategy
"Profamilia's course targets 14-15 year olds precisely because they are close to becoming sexually active... On the other hand, sexual education should in principle be provided before sexual initiation to convey its full benefits."
Shift-Isolated Educational Unit Partitioning
"Given the lack of interaction among children of different shifts, the study treats different shifts in the sample as different schools."
Unannounced Paper-and-Pencil Survey Measurement Protocol
"The pencil and paper survey strategy was chosen instead of a computer survey because treatment students would have more familiarity with computers at endline, hence unnecessarily biasing results."