Phone ban impact on student academic achievement

The top estimate is the estimated average treatment effect of the phone ban on student academic achievement across the full population. The next estimates contain heterogeneous treatment effects for subgroups split by prior average academic achievement (above or below preexperiment median), years of study, and field of study.

Source: Alp Sungu et al.,Phones impede learning: Evidence from a massive phone-free classroom experiment.Science394,178-181(2026).DOI:10.1126/science.aef7249 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aef7249

I’m Taking Your Phone Away (and you didn’t do anything wrong)

When People Did Not Have Access to Mobile Internet, they Spent More Time Socializing in Person, Exercising, and Being in Nature.

Wait…I need to check my phone.