@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp17683,
            	author={Carcillo, Stéphane and Valfort, Marie-Anne and Merino, Pedro Vergara},
            	title={Combating LGBTphobia in Schools: Evidence from a Field Experiment in France},
            	year={2025},
	month={Feb},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={17683},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17683},
	abstract={This paper presents the first rigorous evaluation of school-based interventions aimed at reducing LGBTphobia. We focus on a classroom intervention that addresses the issue of LGBT harassment through perspective-taking and narrative exchange. Using a field experiment in France with more than 10,000 middle and high school students, we find robust evidence of strong positive effects, with variations across gender, age, and socio-economic status. We argue that changing perceptions of group norms is a key channel driving these heterogeneous effects.},
	keywords={LGBT;discrimination;social norms},
            }