Peer networks and malleability of educational aspirations

Michelle González Amador, Robin Cowan and Eleonora Nillesen
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Michelle González Amador: RS: GSBE MGSoG, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance

No 2022-028, MERIT Working Papers from United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Abstract: Continuing education beyond the compulsory years of schooling is one of the most important choices an adolescent has to make; higher education is associated with a host of social and economic benefits both for the person and its community. Today, there is ample evidence that educational aspirations are an important determinant of said choice. We implement a multilevel, networked experiment in 45 Mexican high schools, and provide evidence of the malleability of educational aspirations, and the interdependence of students' choices and the effect of our intervention with peer networks. Moreover, we find that a video- intervention, which combines role-models and information about returns to education, is successful in updating students' beliefs and consequently educational aspirations.

JEL-codes: A21 C21 C22 C93 D83 D91 I29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-09-19
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Working Paper: Peer Networks and Malleability of Educational Aspirations (2022)
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