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The Impact of ICT on Adolescents' Perceptions and Consumption of Substances

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  • Balsa, Ana
  • Gandelman, Néstor
  • Porzecanski, Rafael

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This paper reports the results of a three-month randomized controlled trial to estimate the impact of an Internet and mobile telephone short message service (SMS) intervention on adolescents' information about substances and rates of consumption. A low percentage of participants logged on to the Web platform, but most participants were reached through e-mails and SMS. It is found that the intervention was able to affect awareness that certain substances are drugs, but no significant changes in consumption habits were found.

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  • Balsa, Ana & Gandelman, Néstor & Porzecanski, Rafael, 2010. "The Impact of ICT on Adolescents' Perceptions and Consumption of Substances," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 3336, Inter-American Development Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:idb:brikps:3336
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011276
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    1. Ana Balsa, 2016. "Peer effects vs. parental influence in the development of capabilities in adolescence," Documentos de Trabajo/Working Papers 1609, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economia. Universidad de Montevideo..
    2. Bernatzky, Marianne & Cabrera, José María & Cid, Alejandro, 2015. "Regular Information and Health: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Undergraduate Students," MPRA Paper 84618, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Ana Balsa & N stor Gandelman & Flavia Rold n, 2017. "Peer and parental influence in the development of cognitive skills and predispostion to risky behaviour," Documentos de Trabajo/Working Papers 1701, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economia. Universidad de Montevideo..
    4. Patrizia Faustini & Dorothea Kleine & Sammia Poveda & David Hollow, 2014. "Children, ICT and Development: Capturing the potential, meeting the challenges," Papers innins715, Innocenti Insights.
    5. Ana I. Balsa & Néstor Gandelman & Nicolás González, 2015. "Peer Effects in Risk Aversion," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 35(1), pages 27-43, January.
    6. Balsa, Ana & Gandelman, Néstor & Roldán, Flavia, 2018. "Peer and parental influence in academic performance and alcohol use," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 41-55.
    7. Ana I. Balsa & N stor Gandelman & Diego Lam, 2011. "Lessons from participation in a web-based substance use preventive program in Uruguay," Documentos de Trabajo/Working Papers 1104, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economia. Universidad de Montevideo..

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    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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