Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299903 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16975
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this study, we examine the impact of a student's household socioeconomic status (SES) rank within a class on two critical factors affecting the accumulation of human capital: school bullying victimization and school absence. We identify the effect from the variation of a within-class SES rank of students assigned to different schools and classes, controlling the absolute level of SES and class fixed effects. Using the data from middle-school students in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), we find that, although the absolute level of SES is negatively associated with these incidences, students with a high SES rank within a class are more likely to be the victims of school bullying and to be absent from school. We confirm that these results are robust when the sample is restricted to schools where students' assignment to classes is as good as random.
Subjects: 
rank
socioeconomic status
school bullying
school absence
JEL: 
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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