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Police Violence, Student Protests, and Educational Performance

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  • Gonzalez, Felipe

    (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

  • Prem, Mounu

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We study the protest behavior of teenagers linked to a student killed by a stray bullet coming from a policeman in Chile. We use administrative data to follow the schoolmates of the victim and those living nearby the shooting in hundreds of protest and non-protest days. We find that police violence causes lower protest participation in street rallies but more adherence to test boycotts. These effects appear among schoolmates of the victim and not among students living nearby the killing. Negative educational consequences suffered by the schoolmates combined with previous results suggest that psychological mechanisms are a plausible explanation.

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  • Gonzalez, Felipe & Prem, Mounu, 2020. "Police Violence, Student Protests, and Educational Performance," SocArXiv 3xk5r_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:3xk5r_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/3xk5r_v1
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