Drug Battles and School Achievement: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
By Joana Monteiro, Rudi Rocha. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017
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Abstract This paper examines the effects of gunfights between drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro's favelas on student achievement. We explore variation in violence that occurs across time and space when gangs battle over territories. Within-school estimates indicate that students' scores are lower in math in years in which they are exposed to drug battles. The effect increases with conflict intensity, duration, and proximity to exam dates and decreases with the distance between the school and the conflict location. School supply is an important mechanism. Gunfights are associated with higher teacher absenteeism, principal turnover, and temporary school closings.
Subfields: Education, Safety Research
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- The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students* (2020, result): “Third, this paper builds upon existing research measuring the short-run impacts of criminal violence on children (Sharkey, 2010; Sharkey et al., 2012, 2014; Beland and Kim, 2016; Rossin-Slater et al., 2019; Carrell and Hoekstra, 2010; Monteiro and Rocha, 2017; Gershenson and Tekin, 2017).”
- Education is forbidden: The effect of the Boko Haram conflict on education in North-East Nigeria (2019, unknown): “Instead, the few studies adopting a different empirical strategy (see for instance, Monteiro and Rocha (2017), Br¨uek, Di Maio and Miaari (2014), and Michaelsen and Salardi (2018)) use repeated individual cross-sectional data or school-level panel data.”