The effect of urban violence on student achievement in Medellín, Colombia

This paper examines the impact of urban violence on the standardized test scores of public school students in Medellin. I use the school-level variation in exposure to local homicides for years 2004-2013 in a model that includes school and year fixed effects, allowing me to control for the endogenei...

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Autores:
Haugan, Gregory L.
Tipo de recurso:
Work document
Fecha de publicación:
2016
Institución:
Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:
Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8640
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8640
Palabra clave:
Violence
Urban crime
Education outcomes
Teacher turnover
Violencia y educación
Deserción escolar - Investigaciones - Medellín (Colombia) - 2004-2013
Mediciones y pruebas educativas - Investigaciones - Medellín (Colombia) - 2004-2013
I21, I25, D74, J28, O12, O15
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/