Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/147355 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6101
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted by their end users and are effective in practice. This paper studies the adoption, diffusion, and effects of one type of technology that is increasingly ubiquitous: school-to-parent communication technologies. Using data from a Learning Management Sys-tem in several hundred schools and a two-stage experiment to study the adoption of this technology by parents, I find: A quarter of parents ever use it; adoption follows an S-shape; significant spillovers occur along intensive but not extensive margins; and there is evidence student grades improve as a result.
Subjects: 
education
technology adoption
JEL: 
I20
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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