Temperature and school absences: evidence from England

IF 3.2 3区 社会学 Q1 DEMOGRAPHY
Risto Conte Keivabu
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Extreme temperature affects children’s health, cognitive abilities, and behavior with implications for human capital accumulation. For example, several studies documented both heat and cold to decrease cognitive abilities and being consequential for test scores. An alternative, less explored pathway, by which temperature is consequential for educational achievement, is absenteeism. In this study, we explore how heat affects school attendance leveraging administrative data on more than 22,000 schools in England from the school years 2011/2012 to 2018/2019. Using a fixed-effects approach largely used in the literature, we exploit the variations in temperature by school year to estimate the effect of heat and cold days on absences. The results expose hot days to increase absences. Inquiring specific types of absences, we observe hot days to increase illness-related absences and authorized holidays. Conversely, we do not find any substantive impact of cold exposure, except for illness-related absences in energy-poor neighborhoods. In conclusion, we provide additional evidence on the impact of temperature on children and propose an alternative pathway through which societal challenges associated with climate change and energy poverty could affect human capital accumulation.

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气温与缺课:英格兰的证据
极端温度会影响儿童的健康、认知能力和行为,从而影响人力资本的积累。例如,多项研究表明,酷暑和严寒都会降低认知能力,并影响考试成绩。温度对教育成就的另一个影响途径是旷课,但对这一途径的探讨较少。在本研究中,我们利用 2011/2012 至 2018/2019 学年英格兰 22,000 多所学校的行政数据,探讨了高温如何影响学校出勤率。我们采用文献中常用的固定效应方法,利用各学年气温的变化来估计高温和低温天对缺勤的影响。结果显示,高温天会增加缺勤率。在对缺勤的具体类型进行调查时,我们发现高温天会增加与疾病有关的缺勤和经批准的假期。相反,除了能源匮乏地区与疾病有关的缺勤外,我们没有发现寒冷天气有任何实质性影响。总之,我们提供了温度对儿童影响的更多证据,并提出了与气候变化和能源贫困相关的社会挑战可能影响人力资本积累的另一种途径。
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期刊介绍: Population & Environment is the sole social science journal focused on interdisciplinary research on social demographic aspects of environmental issues. The journal publishes cutting-edge research that contributes new insights on the complex, reciprocal links between human populations and the natural environment in all regions and countries of the world. Quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods contributions are welcome. Disciplines commonly represented in the journal include demography, geography, sociology, human ecology, environmental economics, public health, anthropology and environmental studies. The journal publishes original research, research brief, and review articles.
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