Tesis para optar al grado de MAGISTER EN ANALISIS ECONOMICO / Bullying is one of the most important social problems faced by students at the school.
However, there is scant research in the economic literature about this subject, particularly
for developing countries. This paper explores the e ect of being a victim of di erent
types of bullying (physical, verbal, social, cyber) on standardized test scores using a
unique panel dataset from Chile. Moreover, we are able to see if bullying in
uences grade
retention rates and college admission tests. Fixed e ect estimates indicates that being
bullied decreases student's standardized test score. For instance, being cyber bullied
every day decreases math and reading scores in 0.13 and 0.08 S.D respectively. The more
frequent bullying is, the more detrimental e ects has on school performance. On top of
this, we nd that being bullied increases grade retention probability and decreases college
admission test scores. Our results suggests that bullying must be an important matter
in policy makers agenda in developing countries, since development is heavily in
uence
by the cognitive skills acquire at school
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UCHILE/oai:repositorio.uchile.cl:2250/144308 |
| Date | 04 1900 |
| Creators | Espinoza Rojas, Sebastián |
| Contributors | Contreras Guajardo, Dante |
| Publisher | Universidad de Chile |
| Source Sets | Universidad de Chile |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Tesis |
| Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/ |
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