The Effect of Transitory Health Shocks on Schooling Outcomes: The case of dengue fever in Brazil

Carneiro. Juliana, Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner and Livia Menezes
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Carneiro. Juliana: University of Warwick

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Abstract: In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of transitory individual-level health shocks on schooling outcomes in Brazil. We focus on dengue fever, which, despite putting half of the world’s population at risk, has received relatively little attention, possibly due to its low mortality. We link individual register data on dengue infections with detailed individual records from the Brazilian school census and use a fixed effects estimation strategy to estimate the effect of dengue infections on grade retention and dropout. We find that dengue infections during the school year have a substantial negative effect on measures of student success, with an increase in grade retention of 3.5 percent and an increase in dropout of 4.6 percent. Using information on monthly attendance from the monitoring system of conditionalities of the Brazilian cash transfer Bolsa Famılia, we provide evidence that infections reduce school attendance.

Keywords: Health shocks; dengue; educational outcomes; drop-out JEL Codes: I12; J13; K42; O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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