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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cabral, Marika.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28311.
- NBER working paper series no. w28311
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2020.
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