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The Effect of High School Shootings on Schools and Student Performance

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  • Beland, Louis-Philippe
  • Kim, Dongwoo

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We analyze how fatal shootings in high schools affect schools and students using data from shooting databases, school report cards, and the Common Core of Data. We examine schools’ test scores, enrollment, and number of teachers, as well as graduation, attendance, and suspension rates at schools that experienced a shooting, employing a difference-in-differences strategy that uses other high schools in the same district as the comparison group. Our findings suggest that homicidal shootings significantly decrease the enrollment of students in grade 9 (the high-school entrance grade), and test scores in math and English. Using student-level data from California, we confirm that shootings also lower test results for students that remain enrolled. We find no statistically significant effect on suicidal shootings on all outcome variable of interest.

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  • Beland, Louis-Philippe & Kim, Dongwoo, 2014. "The Effect of High School Shootings on Schools and Student Performance," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2014-27, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 16 Jun 2014.
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    1. After school shootings, students fare poorly in math, English
      by Louis-Philippe Beland, Assistant Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University in The Conversation on 2015-06-17 15:12:17

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    1. Beland, Louis-Philippe & Murphy, Richard, 2016. "Ill Communication: Technology, distraction & student performance," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 61-76.
    2. Brodeur, Abel & Yousaf, Hasin, 2019. "The Economics of Mass Shootings," IZA Discussion Papers 12728, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Beland, Louis-Philippe & Brent, Daniel A., 2018. "Traffic and crime," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 160(C), pages 96-116.
    4. Pedro Paulo Orraca Romano, 2015. "Crime Exposure and Educational Outcomes in Mexico," Working Paper Series 7715, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
    5. Marika Cabral & Bokyung Kim & Maya Rossin-Slater & Molly Schnell & Hannes Schwandt, 2020. "Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes," NBER Working Papers 28311, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    6. Gershenson, Seth & Hayes, Michael S., 2016. "Short-Run Externalities of Civic Unrest: Evidence from Ferguson, Missouri," IZA Discussion Papers 10091, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    7. Orraca Romano, Pedro Paulo, . "Essays on development and labour economics for Mexico," Economics PhD Theses, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School, number 0816, December.
    8. Seth Gershenson & Erdal Tekin, 2018. "The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 13(4), pages 513-544, Fall.
    9. Rakesh Banerjee & Tushar Bharati, 2020. "Mass shootings and Infant Health in the United States," Economics Discussion / Working Papers 20-16, The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics.
    10. Poutvaara, Panu & Ropponen, Olli, 2018. "Shocking news and cognitive performance," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 93-106.

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    • I29 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Other
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • K4 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior

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