Arbeitspapier
Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?
We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one of three settings: individually, in groups with random schoolmates, or in groups with friends. The groups consist of four people and are balanced by average cognitive ability and ability distribution. While the achievement of male students is not affected by the group assignment, low-ability females assigned to groups outperform low-ability females working individually. The treatment is particularly effective when low-ability females study with friends. To rule out sorting effects, we show that random groups with identical compositions to those of friendship groups do not produce similar effects. Our study thus documents that placing students into study groups with their friends may improve learning, especially for low-ability females.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10674
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Education and Economic Development
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- Thema
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social interactions
education
gender
learning
friendship
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hahn, Youjin
Islam, Asadul
Patacchini, Eleonora
Zenou, Yves
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2017
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hahn, Youjin
- Islam, Asadul
- Patacchini, Eleonora
- Zenou, Yves
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2017
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