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Title: Friendship and Female Education: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladeshi Primary Schools

Author(s): Youjin Hahn, Asadul Islam, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

Publication Date: October 2018

Keyword(s): education, Gender, learning and Social interactions

Programme Area(s): Development Economics

Abstract: We randomly assigned 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to one of three settings: children studying individually, children studying in groups with friends, and children studying in groups with peers. The groups consisted of four people with similar average cognitive abilities and household characteristics. While the achievement of male students was not affected by the group assignment, low-ability females in groups with friends outperformed low-ability females working with peers by roughly 0.4 standard deviations of the test score distribution. This is shown not to be due to the fact that friends tend to be of the same gender or to a higher frequency of interactions among friends.

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Hahn, Y, Islam, A, Patacchini, E and Zenou, Y. 2018. 'Friendship and Female Education: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladeshi Primary Schools'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13221