Violence-Induced Migration and Peer Effects in Academic Performance

María Padilla-Romo () and Cecilia Peluffo ()
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María Padilla-Romo: Department of Economics, University of Tennessee, https://sites.google.com/site/mariaspadillaromo/
Cecilia Peluffo: Department of Economics, University of Florida

No 2020-03, Working Papers from University of Tennessee, Department of Economics

Abstract: We document that local violence generates spillover e ects beyond areas where violence takes place, via out-migration from violence-a ected areas and peer exposure to violence. We study out-migration due to drug-tracking-related violence in Mexico between 2006 and 2013. We use violence-induced student migration as an exogenous source of variation in peer exposure to violence to estimate its e ects on student academic performance in relatively safe areas. Our results show that municipalities that face more violence experience higher rates of student out-migration. In receiving schools in areas not directly a ected by violence, adding a new peer who was exposed to local violence to a class of 20 students decreases incumbents' academic performance by 1.2 percent of a standard deviation. Negative e ects are more pronounced among girls and high-achieving students.

Keywords: Local violence; out-migration; in-migration; peer effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I25 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 62 pages
Date: 2020-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-mig and nep-ure
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