Data and Code for: Reshaping Adolescents’ Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Diva Dhar, University of Oxford; Tarun Jain, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University

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Project Citation:

Dhar, Diva, Jain, Tarun, and Jayachandran, Seema. Data and Code for: Reshaping Adolescents’ Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-02-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/E149882V1

Project Description

Summary:

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% 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.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Gender equality; preference formation; social norms

JEL Classification:
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

Geographic Coverage: Haryana, India

Time Period(s): 8/17/2013 – 6/30/2020

Universe: Female and male students enrolled in Classes 7-9 in 2014, across four districts in Haryana, India (Rohtak, Sonepat, Panepat, and Jhajjar).

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