Do Slum Upgrading Programs Impact School Attendance?

Wladimir Zanoni, Paloma Acevedo and Diego Guerrero (guerrero@utk.edu)

No 11696, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper analyzes how slum upgrading programs impact elementary school childrens attendance in Uruguay. We take advantage of the eligibility rule that deems slums eligible for a SUP program if they have 40 or more dwelling units. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity estimator, we find that students exposed to SUPs are 17 percent less likely to be at the 90th percentile of the yearly count of school absences. That effect appears to be driven by how SUPs impact girls. These interventions have effects that last for more than five years after their implementation. We discuss some critical urban and education policy implications of our findings.

Keywords: Slum Upgrading; school absences; regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B20 C54 D04 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-10
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DOI: 10.18235/0003710

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