Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/289987 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1399
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
Diversity in gender identity and sexual orientation challenges traditional institutions, social norms, and gendered stereotypes. This may translate into greater levels of conflict in s ociety. Using data from 95 middle and high schools in Uruguay, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the share of LGBT students across classrooms and estimate its impact on the prevalence of psychological, physical, and sexual violence in the school. On average, we do not find support for a strong link between the share of LGBT students in the classroom and the prevalence of violence, yet we show that there are gendered effects of greater diversity: a larger share of LGBT students in the classroom is associated with greater levels of psychological and physical violence among LGBT girls.
Subjects: 
LGBT
Diversity
Conflict
Contact hypothesis
Violence
Secondaryschool
JEL: 
J16
J24
I21
I24
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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