By surveying schools in four Decades cities regarding their mobile phone policies and combining it with the data, we find a student performance in high numbers exams significantly increases post ban. We use as contingent in differences (DID) strategy, exploiting variations in schools’ autonomous decisions to ban these devices, conditioning on a range of student characteristics and prior achievement. Our information indicate that these increases in performance are only by the downtown achieving students.

Louise Philippe Béland & Richard Murphy

Beland, L.-P., & Murphy, R. (2015). Communication: Technology, Distraction & Student Performance. 1350. school