• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Peer effects on violence : experimental evidence from El Salvador
  • Contributor: Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Bonn, Germany: IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, February 2024
  • Published in: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit: Discussion paper series ; 16830
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 85 Seiten); Illustrationen
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: peer effects ; violence ; integration ; tracking ; after-schoolprograms ; Graue Literatur
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  • Description: Globally, 150 million adolescents report being victims of or engaging in peer-to-peer violence in and around school. One strategy to reduce this risk is to occupy youth in after-school programs (ASP). Yet, the question remains: how does peer group composition affect the effectiveness of an ASP? I address this question by randomly assigning youths to either a control, homogeneous, or heterogeneous peer group within an ASP implemented in El Salvador. I find that, unlike homogeneous groups, heterogeneous peer groups do help students avoid violence. These results are relevant to public policy discussions on optimal group composition for violence reduction programs.
  • Access State: Open Access