{"id":47263,"date":"2024-09-06T11:35:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/?p=47263"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:08:54","slug":"professor-louis-philippe-beland-quoted-in-scientific-american-the-globe-and-mail-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/2024\/professor-louis-philippe-beland-quoted-in-scientific-american-the-globe-and-mail-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Louis-Philippe Beland Quoted in Scientific American &#038; The Globe and Mail this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Professor Louis-Philippe Beland Quoted in Scientific American &#038; The Globe and Mail this Week\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/people\/beland-louis-philippe\/\">Louis-Phillippe Beland<\/a> has been quoted in multiple articles this week regarding his research on phones in schools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Scientific American article titled <em>Do Phone Bans Help Students Perform Better in School?&nbsp;<\/em>and the Globe and Mail article titled <em>On the first day of school, Canada\u2019s new student cellphone bans will face a crucial test.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a couple of quotes from the Scientific American article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Anything that limits access to phones is a positive&#8221;, says Louis-Philippe Beland, an associate professor of economics at Carleton University in Ontario and co-author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0927537116300136\">one of the first papers<\/a>&nbsp;on the academic impact of smartphone access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We found that banning mobile phones in schools increases student performance, especially for low-achieving students. There was no negative impact on high-achieving students,\u201d Beland adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Beland&#8217;s research was cited in the Financial Times article <em>Pressure to ban mobile phones in America\u2019s schools intensifies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read the Scientific American article, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/do-school-phone-bans-help-students\/\">here<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-canadas-student-cellphone-bans-face-a-crucial-test-on-their-first-day\/\">Globe and Mail<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/02e0f64c-08da-49ef-b3f6-f5673bdceb22\">Financial Times<\/a> articles are behind a paywall but can be accessed with subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Louis-Phillippe Beland has been quoted in multiple articles this week regarding his research on phones in schools: The Scientific American article titled Do Phone Bans Help Students Perform Better in School?&nbsp;and the Globe and Mail article titled On the first day of school, Canada\u2019s new student cellphone bans will face a crucial test. 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