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.

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暴力与人力资本投资

在本文中，我们调查了学生接触凶杀案对其教育表现和人力资本投资的影响。结合来自巴西的大量大型地理参考行政数据集，我们估算了公开方式暴露于凶杀案对这些结果的影响。使用学校内部和走廊内部的估计，我们表明，学校周围的暴力行为会对学校出勤率以及数学和葡萄牙语的标准化考试成绩产生不利影响，并增加辍学率。我们构建了学生从家庭到学校途中遭受凶杀的暴露量度标准，发现在学校道路上暴露于凶杀的人​​数大大增加。