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How much of a problem is bullying at school?

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For the first time, the 2015 round of PISA collected data on students’ exposure to bullying. These data show that bullying is widespread. On average across OECD countries, around 11% of students reported that they are frequently (at least a few times per month) made fun of, 8% reported that they are frequently the object of nasty rumours in school, and 7% reported that they are frequently left out of things.Being bullied can negatively affect academic achievement because it influences students’ capacity to focus on academic tasks. Schools where the incidence of bullying is high by international standards (more than 10% of students are frequently bullied) score 47 points lower in science, on average, than schools where bullying is less frequent (schools where less than 5% of students are frequently bullied). These relationships suggest that bullying can both stem from and may exacerbate students’ disengagement with school and underperformance.

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  • Oecd, 2017. "How much of a problem is bullying at school?," PISA in Focus 74, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:eduddd:74-en
    DOI: 10.1787/728d6464-en
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    1. Bilgili, Özge & Volante, Louis & Klinger, Don A. & Siegel, Melissa, 2019. "Confronting the challenge of immigrant and refugee student underachievement: Policies and practices from Canada, New Zealand and the European Union," MERIT Working Papers 2019-048, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    2. Emma Gorman & Colm Harmon & Silvia Mendolia & Anita Staneva & Ian Walker, 2019. "The Causal Effects of Adolescent School Bullying Victimisation on Later Life Outcomes," Working Papers 2019-019, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
    3. Escuadra, Catherine Joy & Magallanes, Krizia & Lee, Sunbok & Chung, Jae Young, 2023. "Systematic analysis on school violence and bullying using data mining," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 150(C).
    4. Emma Gorman & Colm Harmon & Silvia Mendolia & Anita Staneva & Ian Walker, 2021. "Adolescent School Bullying Victimization and Later Life Outcomes," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 83(4), pages 1048-1076, August.
    5. Seo, Chunghyeon & Kruis, Nathan E., 2022. "The impact of school’s security and restorative justice measures on school violence," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 132(C).

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