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When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences
Ist Teil von
Journal of labor economics, 2023-10, Vol.41 (4), p.997-1039
Ort / Verlag
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
We provide evidence that short-term shocks to student cognitive performance have long-lasting consequences for human capital development. We use administrative data from Mexico City to show that students’ exposure to violent crime in the week immediately prior to a high-stakes exam lowers females’ test scores by 11% of a standard deviation. As a result, 19% of female students exposed to violent crime are subsequently assigned to less preferred, lower-quality high schools. We find no such effect for males and show that crime-induced concentration problems are an underlying mechanism behind the detrimental effects on females’ test scores.