Violence and Human Capital Investments

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux; Menezes, Livia
• 署名单位: University of Surrey; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Birmingham
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/711001
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 787-823
• 关键词: community violence; gender-differences; life expectancy; exposure; IMPACT; achievement; outcomes

摘要

We combine extremely granular information on the location and timing of homicides with a number of large administrative educational data sets from Brazil to estimate the effect of exposure to homicides around schools, around students' residences, and on their way to school. We show that violence has a detrimental effect on both school attendance and standardized test scores and that it increases the dropout rates of students substantially. We use exceptionally rich information from student- and parent-background questionnaires to investigate the effect of violence on aspirations and attitudes toward education. We find that boys systematically report lower educational aspiration.