%0 Report
        %A Carcillo, Stéphane
%A Valfort, Marie-Anne
%A Merino, Pedro Vergara
        %T Combating LGBTphobia in Schools: Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
        %D 2025
        %8 2025 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 17683
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17683
        %X 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.
        %K LGBT
%K discrimination
%K social norms