Inclusive Teaching: Spotting Social Isolation in the Classroom

Sule Alan, Michela Carlana and Marinella Leone

No 32954, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We evaluate an intervention designed to increase teachers’ awareness of social isolation by providing them with their own students’ social network and information on developmental risks associated with social exclusion. Using friendship data and incentive-compatible measures of antisocial and prosocial behavior, we find that the intervention reduces social isolation and antisocial behavior without improving prosocial behavior. The reduction in antisocial behavior leads to better economic outcomes in treated classrooms, measured by average payoffs and the Gini coefficient. Our findings highlight the personal and communal benefits of alleviating social exclusion and antisocial peer relationships in schools.

JEL-codes: C93 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-09
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