Empowering Adolescents to Transform Schools: Lessons from a Behavioral Targeting

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Alan, Sule; Kubilay, Elif
• 署名单位: Cornell University; Cornell University; Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University; University of Essex
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20240374
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 365-407
• 关键词: achievement; PERSPECTIVE; opportunity; interventions; neighborhoods; exposure; VIOLENCE; period; crime; locus

摘要

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 antisocial 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.