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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP15628
	DP15628 Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students’ Human Capital and Economic Outcomes
	Marika Cabral; Bokyung Kim; Maya Rossin-Slater; Molly Schnell; Hannes Schwandt
发表日期	2021-01-03
出版年	2021
语种	英语
摘要	A growing number of American children are exposed to gun violence at their schools, but little is known about the impacts of this exposure on their human capital attainment and economic well-being. This paper studies the causal effects of exposure to shootings at schools on children's educational and economic outcomes, using individual-level longitudinal administrative data from Texas. We analyze the universe of shootings at Texas public schools that occurred between 1995 and 2016 and match schools that experienced shootings with observationally similar control schools in other districts. We use difference-in-difference models that leverage within-individual and across-cohort variation in shooting exposure within matched school groups to estimate the short- and long-run impacts of shootings on students attending these schools at the time of the shooting. We find that shooting-exposed students have an increased absence rate and are more likely to be chronically absent and repeat a grade in the two years following the event. We also find adverse long-term impacts on the likelihood of high school graduation, college enrollment and graduation, as well as employment and earnings at ages 24--26. Heterogeneity analyses by student and school characteristics indicate that the detrimental impacts of shootings are universal, with most sub-groups being affected.
主题	Labour Economics
关键词	School shootings Childhood trauma Human capital development
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp15628
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/544643
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Marika Cabral,Bokyung Kim,Maya Rossin-Slater,等. DP15628 Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students’ Human Capital and Economic Outcomes. 2021.