The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: de Chaisemartin, Clement; Navarrete, H. Nicolas
• 署名单位: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); City St Georges, University of London
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/720455
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: mental-health; treatment integrity; CHILDREN; metaanalysis; PREVALENCE; interventions; inference; disorder; BEHAVIOR; IMPACT

摘要

Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs that target disruptive students aim to improve their classroom behavior. Small-scale programs in high-income countries have demonstrated positive effects. Using a randomized experiment, we show that a nationwide SEL program in Chile has no effect. Very disruptive students seem to reduce the program's effectiveness. With attention deficit hyperactivity disorder being more prevalent in middle- than high-income countries, very disruptive students may be more present there, which could diminish the effectiveness of SEL programs. Moreover, implementation fidelity seems lower in this program than in the small-scale ones considered earlier, which could also explain the program's null effect.