Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/326837 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
UNU-MERIT Working Papers No. 2022-028
Publisher: 
United Nations University (UNU), Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht
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.
Subjects: 
Aspirations
Education
Adolescents
Economics of Networks
Peer Effects
School transitions
Field Experiment
Social Network Analysis
Randomized Controlled Trial
JEL: 
A21
C21
C22
C93
D83
D91
I29
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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