Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India

This paper evaluates an intervention in India that engaged adolescent girls and boys classroom discussions about gender equality for two years, aiming to reduce their support societal norms restrict women's girls' opportunities. Using a randomized controlled trial, we find the program made attitudes more supportive of by 0.18 standard deviations, or, equivalently, converted 16 percent regressive attitudes. When resurveyed study participants years after had ended, effects persisted. The also led gender-equal self-reported behavior, weak evidence it affected revealed-preference measures. (JEL D63, D91, I21, J13, J16, 012)