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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Jun 23, 2020
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Identification
Survey ID Number
ECU_2019_SLO-BL_v01_M
Title
Showing Life Opportunities Baseline Data 2019-2020
Country/Economy
| 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.
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.
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 | Abbreviation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| SIEF - World Bank | SIEF | Funder |
| Innovations for Poverty Action | IPA | Funder |
| Innovation Growth Lab | IGL | 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
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 |
Data Collection Mode
Internet [int]
Questionnaires
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.
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.
Access policy
Confidentiality
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 | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | DECDG | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
Date of Metadata Production
2020-06-17
DDI Document version
Version 01 (June 17)