TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Algan, Yann
AU  - Fortin, Nicole M.
        TI  - Computer Gaming and Test Scores: Cross-Country Gender Differences among Teenagers
        PY  - 2016/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10433
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10433
        AB  - Using the PISA surveys (2000-2012), this paper explores the relationship between math test scores and everyday computer gaming by gender and for high income and middle income countries. We use two identification strategies in the spirit of an ideal experiment that would reduce computer gaming through limited internet access or through schools alternative demands. We find that everyday computer gaming has positive effects for boys, but negative effects for girls arising mostly in collaborative games suggesting a role for social effects. Computer gaming is becoming the new "swimming upstream" factor in the quest to close the gender gap in math.
        KW  - math test scores
KW  - computer gaming
KW  - internet access
KW  - gender differences
        ER  -