Using census data on three cohorts of 5th grade Italian students we investigate how the ordinal rank in the within-school … age distribution affects the probability of being bullied. Identification is achieved by exploiting within-school between …-cohort variation in the age composition of different school cohorts, and through an IV strategy based on the discontinuity in the …

Despite the growing evidence on the negative consequences of school bullying, there is no consensus regarding the most … effective strategies to fight this problem. We study the impact of a randomized intervention to reduce school bullying in urban … public schools in Peru, a country where violence re-mains a major challenge. The intervention consisted of two components: i …

depression, isolation, victimization from bullying and attitudes towards violence at school; and lower verbal and math test … violence exposure over the academic attainment of secondary school students in Peru. However, we also study these peer effects … over a novel set of outcomes: internalizing behaviors and forms of violence at school. Our results show that being in a …

Violence at schools is a well-known problem in many societies. This paper assesses the degree of school violence in 11 … the international TIMSS 2003 and the British longitudinal NCDS data. The level of school violence is high in most …

situations of delinquency, bullying, or violence that prevents us from the positive influence we can have on them"-- …