Violence-induced migration and peer effects in academic performance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Padilla-Romo, Maria; Peluffo, Cecilia
• 署名单位: University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104778
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: Local violence; Out-migration; In-migration; peer effects

摘要

We document that local violence generates spillover effects beyond areas where violence takes place, via out-migration from violence-affected areas and peer exposure to violence. In the context of the Mexican war on drugs, we use violence-induced student migration as an exogenous source of variation in peer exposure to violence to estimate its effects on the academic performance of non-moving students in areas not directly affected by violence. Our results show that municipalities that face more violence experience higher rates of student out-migration. In receiving schools in areas not directly affected by violence, add-ing a new peer who was exposed to local violence to a class of 20 students decreases incumbents' aca-demic performance by 2 percent of a standard deviation. Negative effects are more pronounced among girls and high-achieving students.(c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.