TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Carcillo, Stéphane
AU  - Valfort, Marie-Anne
AU  - Merino, Pedro Vergara
        TI  - Combating LGBTphobia in Schools: Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
        PY  - 2025/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17683
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17683
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - LGBT
KW  - discrimination
KW  - social norms
        ER  -