Peer Effects on Violence : Experimental Evidence from El Salvador

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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Main Author: Dinarte Diaz, Lelys
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
PEER EFFECTS
SEGREGATION
INTEGRATION
VIOLENCE
AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/806901584456016496/Peer-Effects-on-Violence-Experimental-Evidence-from-El-Salvador
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33446
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spelling okr-10986-334462022-09-20T00:10:07Z Peer Effects on Violence : Experimental Evidence from El Salvador Dinarte Diaz, Lelys PEER EFFECTS SEGREGATION INTEGRATION VIOLENCE AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS 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. 2020-03-19T18:16:24Z 2020-03-19T18:16:24Z 2020-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/806901584456016496/Peer-Effects-on-Violence-Experimental-Evidence-from-El-Salvador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33446 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9187 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean El Salvador
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topic PEER EFFECTS
SEGREGATION
INTEGRATION
VIOLENCE
AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS
spellingShingle PEER EFFECTS
SEGREGATION
INTEGRATION
VIOLENCE
AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS
Dinarte Diaz, Lelys
Peer Effects on Violence : Experimental Evidence from El Salvador
geographic_facet Latin America & Caribbean
El Salvador
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9187
description 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.
format Working Paper
author Dinarte Diaz, Lelys
author_facet Dinarte Diaz, Lelys
author_sort Dinarte Diaz, Lelys
title Peer Effects on Violence : Experimental Evidence from El Salvador
title_short Peer Effects on Violence : Experimental Evidence from El Salvador
title_full Peer Effects on Violence : Experimental Evidence from El Salvador
title_fullStr Peer Effects on Violence : Experimental Evidence from El Salvador
title_full_unstemmed Peer Effects on Violence : Experimental Evidence from El Salvador
title_sort peer effects on violence : experimental evidence from el salvador
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/806901584456016496/Peer-Effects-on-Violence-Experimental-Evidence-from-El-Salvador
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33446
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