Showing Life Opportunities Baseline Data 2019-2020 - Ecuador

Abstract
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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.

Geographic coverage
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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.

Analysis unit
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Student

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

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

Mode of data collection
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Internet [int]

Research instrument
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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.

摘要
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本数据集为在厄瓜多尔的高中进行随机实验的基线数据。该干预措施为一门在线教育课程，涵盖创业软技能、科学方法以及与典范人物进行的访谈。学生们在教师指导下，利用课堂时间修习此课程。我们与14至18岁的学生（约15,000名学生）在126所学校进行合作。我们将学校随机分配至干预组（接受在线的创业和科学内容）或安慰剂对照组（接受来自标准课程套件的安慰剂在线课程）。在干预组内，我们对不同年级的创业课程类型进行随机分配，并随机调整创业与科学课程的顺序，以测量各组成部分的短期影响并减轻顺序效应。此外，我们对学校进行交叉随机分配，以接受成功科学家和创业家访谈的典范人物治疗。另外，我们还提供关于职业选择的信息。
基线调查通过学校的在线学习平台进行。
地理覆盖范围
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基多市和教育区2
教育区2的行政总部位于纳波省的特纳市。其涵盖了纳波省、奥雷拉纳省和皮钦查省，8个区（15D01, 22D01, 17D10, 17D11, 15D02, 17D12, 22D02, 22D03），16个郡和68个教区。其面积为39,542.58平方公里。教育区2从东部延伸至厄瓜多尔的西部边界。我们覆盖了年龄在14至18岁之间、互联网接入充足以及开设K10、K11或K12年级课程的学校的学生。我们将基多市纳入研究，以通过在样本中包含大型（首都）城市来丰富项目覆盖范围。
分析单元
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学生
数据类型
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样本调查数据 [ssd]
抽样程序
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所选学校中所有在课堂上出勤的学生都填写了基线问卷
数据收集方式
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互联网 [int]
研究工具
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调查由多主题问卷组成，通过学校在线学习平台在正常教育时间内对学生进行。我们收集以下信息：1.学科特定知识测试。西班牙语、英语、统计学。2.职业意向、偏好、信念、期望和态度。STEM和创业意向、偏好、信念、期望和态度。3.心理特征。个人主动性、谈判技巧、一般认知（一般自我效能感、青年自我效能感、感知辅助自我效能感量表、自我调节焦点、短 grit 尺度），创业认知（商业自我效能感、识别机会、商业态度、社会创业标准）。4.其他背景信息。社会经济地位、语言、风险和时间偏好、信任水平、父母背景、学生的五大人格特质。