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Title: Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2022

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DOI: 10.3386/W28311

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Abstract: We examine how shootings at schools-an increasingly common form of gun violence in the United States-impact the educational and economic trajectories of students. Using linked schooling and labor market data in Texas from 1992 to 2018, we compare within-student and across-cohort changes in outcomes following a shooting to those experienced by students at matched control schools. We find that school shootings increase absenteeism and grade repetition; reduce high school graduation, college enrollment, and college completion; and reduce employment and earnings at ages 24-26. We further find school-level increases in the number of leadership staff and reductions in retention among teachers and teaching support staff in the years following a shooting. The adverse impacts of shootings span student characteristics, suggesting that the economic costs of school shootings are universal.

Url: https://www.nber.org/papers/w28311

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Authors: Cabral, Marika; Kim, Bokyung; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Schnell, Molly; Schwandt, Hannes

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Publication Number: 28311

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research

Pages: 1-74

Publisher Location: Cambridge

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Topics: Crime and Deviance, Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare

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