Tuesday 25 March 2025 12:55 - 14:00

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

About this event

This study explores whether it is possible to affect children’s aspirations and ambitions through a classroom-based intervention. We design and implement ORME, an Online Role-model Mentoring program, which consists of exposing children to online meetings with a group of role models. We evaluate ORME with a Randomized Controlled Trial targeting 7th grade students (12-13 years old) in Campania, an Italian region historically plagued by stagnating economic conditions, the presence of organized crime, and a generalized lack of trust in institutions. One year after the intervention, children exposed to ORME are 8.3 and 9.6 percentage points more likely to enrol in academic and top-tier tracks, respectively. The potential mechanism of this effect is through an increase in aspirations, self-efficacy, and self-reported effort.

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Directions

This event will take place in SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH.

Labour Markets Workshops are part of the CEP's Labour Markets programme.