Análise dos choques de precipitações nos resultados educacionais de estudantes em vulnerabilidade urbana

Abstract

This study aims to identify if rainfall shocks affect the learning of students living near disaster risk areas. Through a difference-in-difference strategy, we evidenced that students are adversely affected in both Portuguese and mathematics performance when extreme rainfall shocks are observed. Boys, students with high socioeconomic status, and those living in more urban areas were most affected. Additionally, we investigated four potential channels to explain the results: deterioration in the school infrastructure, non-cognitive aspects, parental investment, and change in the allocation of students' time outside school. None of these channels contributed to explain the results on performance.