Empowering Underprivileged College Students through Leadership Roles in Their Communities: Experimental Evidence from Peru
研究了一项让贫困大学生担任社区领导角色的干预措施，发现女性学生的学业成绩和社会责任感得到提升，效果持续至疫情期间。
We study the impacts of an intervention in which underprivileged college students were randomly assigned to leadership roles. In these positions, students led information and training sessions on a new financial technology in their communities. Our results indicate that participant female students improved their academic performance, measured by grade point average and credits completed, in the short and long term. These effects persisted even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, their attitudes toward social responsibility and community engagement improved. Removing leadership opportunity constraints for underprivileged female college students can enhance their academic effort, performance, and social responsibility.