Does digital access translate into human capital gains? Assessing information technology use effects on cognitive and non-cognitive development of students in Western Rural China

• Bin Tang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Experimental Economics in Education, Faculty of Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Zeming Cheng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Experimental Economics in Education, Faculty of Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Xiaoli Lin,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Experimental Economics in Education, Faculty of Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Yunxuan Cao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

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• Siyi Xiao,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Center for Experimental Economics in Education, Faculty of Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Yunhui Ma,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Experimental Economics in Education, Faculty of Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Kaixuan Gao

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  * E-mail: kaixuangao@snnu.edu.cn

  Affiliation The Library, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7665-8464

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