El uso del castigo físico por parte del docente, y el rendimiento de los estudiantes en la sierra peruana

Alejandra Miranda ()

Avances de Investigación from Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)

Abstract: Ensuring a quality education means having a suitable environment for students' development. In Peru, violence against children is one of the factors that continues to affect this environment. Due to this fact, the objective of the study is to explore the medium-term effect of teachers' use of corporal punishment in the highlands on students' achievement. Due to its high poverty, illiteracy, and malnutrition rates, the highlands is one of the most vulnerable regions in Peru. Using data from the Longitudinal Young Lives Study and the School Census, an OLS model as well as a Propensity Score Matching were performed to estimate the effect of teachers' violence on students' achievement from public schools in the highlands. Results show that being a victim of corporal punishment at the age of 8 years old negatively affects students' achievement in math and vocabulary at age 12, even after other characteristics of the child, family, and school are controlled. It was also found that although boys are more likely to be victims of such violence, the effect on achievement is heterogeneous, and more harmful for girls than boys.

Keywords: Disciplina escolar; Docentes; Rendimiento escolar; Perú; School punishment; School discipline; Teachers; Academic achievement; Peru (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2016
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