Peer Effects on Violence : Experimental Evidence from El Salvador
This paper provides experimental evidence of the effect of having peers with different propensities for violence in the context of an afterschool program. By randomly assigning students to participate in the program with a set of similar or diverse...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/806901584456016496/Peer-Effects-on-Violence-Experimental-Evidence-from-El-Salvador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33446 |
| Summary: | This paper provides experimental
evidence of the effect of having peers with different
propensities for violence in the context of an afterschool
program. By randomly assigning students to participate in
the program with a set of similar or diverse peers in terms
of violence, the study measures the effects of segregation
or integration on students' behavioral,
neurophysiological, and academic outcomes. The paper also
exploits a discontinuity around the median of the propensity
for violence distribution, to measure the impacts of
segregation on marginal students. The results indicate that
integrating students with different propensities for
violence is better for highly and less violent children than
segregating them. In particular, the intervention can have
unintended effects on misbehavior and stress, if highly
violent students are segregated and treated separately from
their less violent peers. |
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