The study demonstrates that student-led citizenship projects supervised by trained teachers reduce absenteeism and disciplinary sanctions, improve academic performance, and diversify friendship networks. The effects are especially strong when teachers are already highly engaged in school life.

This research shows how schools can actively foster civic virtues. Drawing on a large randomized controlled trial in 200 middle schools across three countries.

🔹 Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, together with @simonbriole.bsky.social, Marc Gurgand, Éric Maurin , Sandra McNally and Daniel Santín, have published the article “The Making of Civic Virtues: A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries.”

A policy brief summarizing the main results of the paper is available here: www.povertyactionlab.org/sites/defaul...

French version here: www.povertyactionlab.org/sites/defaul...