School Violence and Bullying

Case Studies & Research
Case Studies & Research | 2024

Peer effects on violence: experimental evidence from El Salvador

Globally, 150 million adolescents report being victims of or engaging in peer-to-peer violence in and around school. One strategy to reduce this risk is to occupy youth in afterschool programs (ASP). Yet, the question remains: how does peer group composition affect the effectiveness of an ASP?

Case Studies & Research
Case Studies & Research | 2023

COVID-19, school closures and (cyber) bullying in Germany

We analyze the prevalence of bullying in Germany during COVID-19, both as a real-life phenomenon (in-person bullying, or in our context: school bullying) and via social media and electronic communication tools (cyberbullying).