TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux
AU  - Menezes, Livia
        TI  - Violence and Human Capital Investments
        PY  - 2019/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12240
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12240
        AB  - In this paper, we investigate the effect of student exposure to homicides on their educational performance and human capital investments. Combining a number of large georeferenced administrative datasets from Brazil, we estimate the effect of exposure to homicides in the public way on these outcomes. Using within-school and within-corridor estimates, we show that violence in the surroundings of schools has a detrimental effect on school attendance and on standardised test scores in math and Portuguese language and increases dropout rates. We construct measures of student exposure to homicides on their way from home to school and find that exposure on the school path increases dropout rates substantially. Exceptionally rich data on student- and parent-reported aspirations and attitudes towards education allow us to explore the channels underlying these effects.
        KW  - education
KW  - human capital investments
KW  - homicides
KW  - Brazil
        ER  -