Peer Effects from Schoolmates Exposed to Violence at Home

Jarod Apperson () and Carycruz Bueno ()
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Jarod Apperson: Spelman College, Department of Economics
Carycruz Bueno: Department of Economics, Wesleyan University

No 2024-011, Wesleyan Economics Working Papers from Wesleyan University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Little is known about how students exposed to violence affect peers. Combining nine years of student data with geocoded police records from a large urban school district, I measure spillovers using plausibly exogenous variation in peer group composition. My results suggest a peer’s exposure to violence has little effect on academic achievement. Adding an additional peer exposed to at-home violence to a classroom of 20 students reduces English and math scores by 0.006 standard deviations, an amount not statistically distinguishable from zero. Results are measured precisely enough to reject achievement reductions greater than 0.017 standard deviations with ninety-five percent confidence.

Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2024-07
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