Politics Matter: How Political Experience Mitigates Learning Losses Caused by Natural Disasters
Growing evidence warns about the detrimental effects of the stress induced by natural disasters on learning outcomes. Yet less is known about how political leadership could mitigate the adverse exposure to these events. Exploiting a natural experiment—the massive 2010 earthquake in Chile—as an exoge...
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| description | Growing evidence warns about the detrimental effects of the stress induced by natural disasters on learning outcomes. Yet less is known about how political leadership could mitigate the adverse exposure to these events. Exploiting a natural experiment—the massive 2010 earthquake in Chile—as an exogenous shock and using fine-grained student data, we find that school disruption has a short and long-term impact on students’ test scores. Moreover, our results indicate that learning losses were more pronounced in municipalities with a first-term mayor, in contrast to a nonsignificant effect in municipalities with a reelected one. We show that one of the pathways accounting for these effects is the ability of experienced bureaucrats to mobilize educational resources, highlighting the relevance of managerial capacities in times of crisis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-52a7a890282a4742b00b18820c62b3bb2024-01-17T16:12:54ZengRussell Sage FoundationRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences2377-82532377-82612024-01-01101181204https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.08Politics Matter: How Political Experience Mitigates Learning Losses Caused by Natural DisastersManuel Alcaino0Pablo Argote1 UNESCO Institute for StatisticsUniversity of Southern CaliforniaGrowing evidence warns about the detrimental effects of the stress induced by natural disasters on learning outcomes. Yet less is known about how political leadership could mitigate the adverse exposure to these events. Exploiting a natural experiment—the massive 2010 earthquake in Chile—as an exogenous shock and using fine-grained student data, we find that school disruption has a short and long-term impact on students’ test scores. Moreover, our results indicate that learning losses were more pronounced in municipalities with a first-term mayor, in contrast to a nonsignificant effect in municipalities with a reelected one. We show that one of the pathways accounting for these effects is the ability of experienced bureaucrats to mobilize educational resources, highlighting the relevance of managerial capacities in times of crisis.natural disasters2010 chilean earthquakestudent achievementpolitical experience |
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| title | Politics Matter: How Political Experience Mitigates Learning Losses Caused by Natural Disasters |
| title_full | Politics Matter: How Political Experience Mitigates Learning Losses Caused by Natural Disasters |
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| title_short | Politics Matter: How Political Experience Mitigates Learning Losses Caused by Natural Disasters |
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| topic | natural disasters 2010 chilean earthquake student achievement political experience |
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