ERIC Number: ED671407
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Publication Date: 2020-Sep
Pages: 52
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Can Community Crime Monitoring Reduce Student Absenteeism? EdWorkingPaper No. 20-291
Robert Gonzalez; Sarah Komisarow
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
In this paper we study the impact on student absenteeism of a large school-based community crime monitoring program that employed local community members to monitor and report crime on designated city blocks during students' travel to and from school. We find that the program resulted in a 0.78 percentage point reduction in the school-level absence rate (11 percent effect). We explore two potential channels to explain this: we find improvements "outside of the school walls" in the form of reduced crime near treated schools and "inside of the school walls" in the form of reduced incidents of serious student misconduct.
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Elementary School Students, School Violence, Crime, Neighborhoods, Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Truancy, Causal Models, Correlation, Community Action, Community Involvement, School Community Programs, Observation, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: annenberg@brown.edu; Web site: https://annenberg.brown.edu/
Related Records: EJ1384992
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Identifiers - Location: Illinois (Chicago)
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