Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India
中文摘要
本文评估了印度的一项干预措施，该措施让青春期女孩和男孩在课堂中参与关于性别平等的讨论长达两年，旨在减少他们对限制女性和女孩机会的社会规范的支持。使用随机对照试验，我们发现该计划使态度对性别平等的支持度提高了0.18个标准差，或者等价地，转化了16%的退步态度。当我们在干预结束两年后重新调查研究对象时，效应依然持续。该计划还导致了更加性别平等的自陈行为，并且我们发现微弱证据表明它影响了两项显示性偏好测度。(JEL D63, D91, I21, J13, J16, 012)
Abstract
This paper evaluates an intervention in India that engaged adolescent girls and boys in classroom discussions about gender equality for two years, aiming to reduce their support for societal norms that restrict women's and girls' opportunities. Using a randomized controlled trial, we find that the program made attitudes more supportive of gender equality by 0.18 standard deviations, or, equivalently, converted 16 percent of regressive attitudes. When we resurveyed study participants two years after the intervention had ended, the effects had persisted. The program also led to more gender-equal self-reported behavior, and we find weak evidence that it affected two revealed-preference measures. (JEL D63, D91, I21, J13, J16, 012)