Kubilay, Elif and Alan, Sule (2025) Empowering Adolescents to Transform Schools: Lessons from a Behavioral Targeting. The American Economic Review, 115 (2). pp. 365-407. DOI https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20240374 (In Press)
Kubilay, Elif and Alan, Sule (2025) Empowering Adolescents to Transform Schools: Lessons from a Behavioral Targeting. The American Economic Review, 115 (2). pp. 365-407. DOI https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20240374 (In Press)
Kubilay, Elif and Alan, Sule (2025) Empowering Adolescents to Transform Schools: Lessons from a Behavioral Targeting. The American Economic Review, 115 (2). pp. 365-407. DOI https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20240374 (In Press)
Abstract
We test the effectiveness of a behavioral program grounded in the idea that status granting and self-persuasion might yield a robust behavioral change in disadvantaged adolescents. We enlist socially connected senior middle school students with high emotional intelligence as “student-teachers” and entrust them with delivering a curriculum to their junior peers. The program empowers student-teachers, leading them to improve their social environment. It reduces disciplinary incidents and anti-social behavior among student-teachers and their friendship networks. The intervention significantly enhances the likelihood of admission to selective high schools for student-teachers, offering a cost-effective way to help disadvantaged adolescents escape neighborhood disadvantages.
Item Type: | Article |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2024 17:10 |
Last Modified: | 06 Apr 2025 01:54 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39546 |
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