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Caudillo, Mónica L.; Torche, Florencia – Sociology of Education, 2014
We investigate the effect of children's exposure to local violence on grade failure in Mexico. We construct an annual panel of all elementary schools from 1990 to 2010 and merge municipality-level homicide rates to analyze the effect of exposure to local homicide. Using a variety of causal inference techniques, we consistently find that exposure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homicide, Academic Achievement, Social Influences