Laura Pagani|Gianluca Argentin|Marco Gui|Luca Stanca
The impact of digital skills on educational outcomes: evidence from performance tests
University of Milano-Bicocca|Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore|University of Milano-Bicocca|University of Milano-Bicocca
digital skills increasingly important labour market outcomes social participation also matter academic performance paper investigates effects digital literacy educational outcomes merging data italian national assessment secondary schools original dataset performance tests internet skills tenthgrade students identification strategy relies rich set individual family school classroom control variables commonly available previous studies findings indicate overall internet skills positive impact academic achievement effect stronger students low academic performance low family background also stronger students technical vocational schools