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Showing Life Opportunities Baseline Data 2019-2020

Ecuador, 2019 - 2020
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Reference ID
ECU_2019_SLO-BL_v01_M
Producer(s)
David McKenzie, Igor Asanov, Francisco Flores, Thomas Astebro, Mona Mensmann, Bruno Crepon, Guido Buenstorf, Mathis Schulte
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  • Version
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Depositor information
  • Data Access
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    ECU_2019_SLO-BL_v01_M
    Title

    Showing Life Opportunities Baseline Data 2019-2020
    Country
    Name Country code
    Ecuador ECU
    Abstract

    These data are the baseline data for a randomized experiment conducted in high schools in Ecuador. The intervention is an online education course that covers entrepreneurial soft skills, scientific methods, and interviews with role models. This course is taken by students during class time, under teacher supervision. We work with 14-18-year-old students (about 15,000 students) in 126 schools. We randomly assign schools either to treatment (and receiving the entrepreneurship and science content online), or placebo-control (receiving a placebo treatment of online courses from standard curricula) groups. Within the treatment group, we randomize at the grade-level the type of entrepreneurship curricula, and then randomize the order of entrepreneurship and science courses to measure the short-term effects of each component and to mitigate order effects. In addition, we cross-randomize schools to a role model treatment of interviews with successful scientists and entrepreneurs. In addition, we provide information about career options.

    The baseline survey was administrated through an online learning platform in school.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Student

    Version

    Version Date

    1591848000

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    Municipality of Quito and Educational Zone 2

    Educational Zone 2 has its administrative headquarters in the city of Tena, Napo province. Its covers provinces of Napo, Orellana and Pichincha, 8 districts (15D01, 22D01, 17D10, 17D11, 15D02, 17D12, 22D02, 22D03), its 16 cantons and 68 parishes. It has an area of 39,542.58 km². The educational zone 2 spread from east to the western border of the Ecuador. We cover students of age 14-18 in schools that has sufficient access to the internet and classes of the K10, K11, or K12. We included the municipality of Quito in the study to enrich the coverage of program by having large (capital) city in the sample.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    David McKenzie World Bank
    Igor Asanov University of Kassel
    Francisco Flores University of Kassel
    Thomas Astebro HEC Paris
    Mona Mensmann Warwick Business School
    Bruno Crepon ENSAE
    Guido Buenstorf University of Kassel
    Mathis Schulte HEC Paris
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    SIEF - World Bank Funder
    Innovations for Poverty Action Funder
    Innovation Growth Lab Funder
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name Affiliation Role
    Ministry of Education of Ecuador MINEDUC Partner

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    All students in selected schools who were present in classes filled out the baseline questionnaire

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The survey consists of a multi-topic questionnaire administered to the students through online learning platform in school during normal educational hours. We collect the following information:

    1. Subject specific knowledge tests. Spanish, English, Statistics.
    2. Career intentions, preferences, beliefs, expectations, and attitudes. STEM and entrepreneurial intentions, preferences, beliefs, expectations, and attitudes.
    3. Psychological characteristics. Personal Initiative, Negotiations, General Cognition (General Self-Efficacy, Youth Self-Efficacy, Perceived Subsidiary Self-Efficacy Scale, Self-Regulatory Focus, Short Grit Scale), Entrepreneurial Cognition (Business Self-Efficacy, Identifying Opportunities, Business Attitudes, Social Entrepreneurship Standards).
    4. Other background information. Socioeconomic level, language spoken, risk and time preferences, trust level, parents background, big-five personality traits of student.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2019/09/23 2020/01/31 Baseline
    Time periods
    Start date End date Cycle
    2019/09/23 2020/01/31 Baseline
    Mode of data collection
    • Internet [int]

    Depositor information

    Depositor
    Name Affiliation
    David McKenzie World Bank

    Data Access

    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes Data have been anonymized to remove personal identifying information.
    Access conditions

    Public use access, to be used for academic research purposes only, provided no attempt is made to re-identify any individual in the study.
    Citation requirements

    Igor Asanov, Thomas Åstebro, Guido Buenstorf,Bruno Crépon,Francisco Flores,David McKenzie, Mona Mensmann, Mathis Schulte (2020) Showing Life Opportunities Baseline Data (SLO-BL) 2019-2020, Round 1 (Baseline). Ref. ECU_2019_SLO-BL_v01_M. Downloaded from [url] on [date].

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_ECU_2019_SLO-BL_v01_M_WB
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Economics Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
    Date of Metadata Production

    2020-06-17

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (June 17)
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