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

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Cabral, Marika; Kim, Bokyung; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Schnell, Molly; Schwandt, Hannes
• 署名单位: University of Connecticut
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6527
• DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdaf027
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: adverse childhood experiences; MENTAL-HEALTH; CHILDREN; stress; symptoms; rates

摘要

We examine how shootings at schools-an increasingly common form of gun violence in the 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 years. 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.