PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Apperson, Jarod
AU  - Bueno, Carycruz
TI  - Reconsidering Peer Effects from Schoolmates Exposed to Violence at Home
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.0825-14475
DP  - 2025 Dec 08
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0825-14475
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2025/12/02/jhr.0825-14475.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2025/12/02/jhr.0825-14475.full
AB  - Prior research suggests that students exposed to domestic violence impose substantial negative externalities on peers’ learning and labor market outcomes. We test whether these findings generalize using nine-years of student data from a large urban school district linked to geocoded police records of at-home violence. In contrast to prior work, we find negligible peer effects. Adding one exposed peer to a classroom of 20 students reduces English and math scores by a statistically insignificant 0.006 standard deviations and increases disciplinary incidents by 3.2%. We reject achievement reductions greater than 0.017 standard deviations and disciplinary increases larger than 8.3%.