ERIC Number: EJ1438545
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 24
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ISSN: ISSN-2377-8253
EISSN: EISSN-2377-8261
Politics Matter: How Political Experience Mitigates Learning Losses Caused by Natural Disasters
Manuel Alcaino; Pablo Argote
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, v10 n1 p181-204 2024
Growing evidence warns about the detrimental effects of the stress induced by natural disasters on learning outcomes. Yet less is known about how political leadership could mitigate the adverse exposure to these events. Exploiting a natural experiment--the massive 2010 earthquake in Chile--as an exogenous shock and using fine-grained student data, we find that school disruption has a short and long-term impact on students' test scores. Moreover, our results indicate that learning losses were more pronounced in municipalities with a first-term mayor, in contrast to a nonsignificant effect in municipalities with a reelected one. We show that one of the pathways accounting for these effects is the ability of experienced bureaucrats to mobilize educational resources, highlighting the relevance of managerial capacities in times of crisis.
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Achievement Gains, Political Influences, Environmental Influences, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 8, Scores, Government School Relationship, Federal Government, Local Government
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Grade 8; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Chile
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