Friendship and Female Education: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladeshi Primary Schools

Yves Zenou, Youjin Hahn, Asad Islam and Eleonora Patacchini

No 13221, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We randomly assigned 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to one of three settings: children studying individually, children studying in groups with friends, and children studying in groups with peers. The groups consisted of four people with similar average cognitive abilities and household characteristics. While the achievement of male students was not affected by the group assignment, low-ability females in groups with friends outperformed low-ability females working with peers by roughly 0.4 standard deviations of the test score distribution. This is shown not to be due to the fact that friends tend to be of the same gender or to a higher frequency of interactions among friends.

Keywords: Social interactions; Education; Gender; Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 J16 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-gen, nep-net, nep-soc and nep-ure
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