Seminario 22/07: Mauro Mediavilla (Universitat de València e Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) Impact of Bullying of Academic Performance in Spain

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Bullying is a widespread problem throughout the world that affects one in three students and
whose consequences can last in the long term. The main objective of this research is to study
the causal relationship between bullying and academic performance on 15-year-old students in
Spain. The databases used come from the external evaluation of the Programme for
International Student Assessment (PISA) carried out on a sample from all
over the country during 2018 (almost 36,000 students). To identify the impact of bullying on
academic performance, the Propensity Score Matching methodology was used. The results
indicate that bullying has a negative impact on all the abilities evaluated and that this negative
effect is equivalent to the loss of 4-6 months of formal education for bullied students compared
to their peers.