Arbeitspapier

Persistence of the Spillover Effects of Violence and Educational Trajectories

This paper provides evidence on how having violence-exposed peers who migrated to nonviolent areas affects students' educational trajectories in receiving schools. To recover our estimates, we exploit the variation in local violence across different municipalities in the context of Mexico's war on drugs and linked administrative records on students' educational trajectories. We find that peer exposure to violence in elementary school imposes persistent negative effects on students in nonviolent areas. Having elementary school violence-exposed peers has detrimental effects on students' academic performance in a high school admission exam and grade progression. For every ten students previously exposed to local violence who migrated to Mexico City's metro area, approximately five incumbent students in safe municipalities are placed in lower-ranked and less-preferred schools.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16374

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Education and Inequality
Education and Economic Development
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Thema
local violence
peer effects
educational trajectories

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Padilla-Romo, María
Peluffo, Cecilia
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2023

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Padilla-Romo, María
  • Peluffo, Cecilia
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2023

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