136423 20260217205526.0 doi 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106741 sideral 139337 ART-2024-139337 eng Barrado, Beatriz (orcid)0000-0003-2033-801X Exposure to drug trafficking and school truancy: Empirical evidence from Costa Rica 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Exposure to crime and violence associated with drug trafficking has been shown to have negative consequences on students’ health, peer relationships, and educational outcomes. However, little attention has been devoted to analyzing the effects of exposure to drug trafficking on students’ truancy behavior, a critical outcome with a high cost at an individual and societal level. This study investigates the connection between exposure to drug traff icking (an increasingly common form of chronic crime and subsequent violence in Latin America) and school truancy in Costa Rica. To do so, we use a unique and comprehensive microdata set that merges detailed information on a specific measure of exposure to drug trafficking (cocaine seizures) and socioeconomic characteristics of Costa Rican districts with student and school data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). In total, we obtain a sample of 4,584 students in secondary education attending 195 schools in 147 districts. Using logistic regression, we find that students in districts with higher exposure to drug trafficking (measured by cocaine seizure rate) are more prone to school truancy. This finding suggests that strategies to tackle school truancy should consider a neighborhood context perspective. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es 4.8 2024 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES 6 / 65 = 0.092 2024 Q1 T1 ECONOMICS 52 / 620 = 0.084 2024 Q1 T1 2.161 2024 Development 2024 Q1 Sociology and Political Science 2024 Q1 Geography, Planning and Development 2024 Q1 Economics and Econometrics 2024 Q1 13.1 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Fernández-Gutiérrez, Marcos Gimenez, Gregorio Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3702-4017 4014 225 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Economía Aplicada Área Economía Aplicada 183 (2024), 106741 [12 pp.] World dev. WORLD DEVELOPMENT 0305-750X 1989868 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/136423/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2504456 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/136423/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:136423 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:30:30 ARTICLE