Digital Divide and Building the Habit of Reading to the Children in the Developing Countries: Empirical Evidence from PISA Thailand
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This article aimed to study the effect of the digital divide caused by educational demand and supply on the probability of developing a reading habit in children. It used the student survey data from the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, in 2018, which included only 8,633 Thai students aged 15 from all schools in all regions of Thailand. The statistics employed for data analysis included a percent frequency distribution and an econometric model. The finding revealed that the digital divide caused by educational demand was having an educational software. The children in the household having it had a higher probability of having a reading habit than the household without it (about 2.80 percent). The digital divide caused by educational supply was having a specific programme to prepare students for responsible internet behaviour. The children in the school with this policy had a higher probability of having a reading habit than the household without it about 8.66 percent.
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