THE EFFECTS OF POLICE VIOLENCE ON INNER-CITY STUDENTS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ang, Desmond
• 署名单位: Harvard University
• 刊物名称: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-5533
• DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjaa027
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 115-168
• 关键词: achievement evidence; EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE; school; perceptions; trauma; black; cops; RACE; opportunity; persistence

摘要

Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects of these events on the educational and psychological well-being of Los Angeles public high school students. Exploiting hyperlocal variation in how close students live to a killing, I find that exposure to police violence leads to persistent decreases in GPA, increased incidence of emotional disturbance, and lower rates of high school completion and college enrollment. These effects are driven entirely by black and Hispanic students in response to police killings of other minorities and are largest for incidents involving unarmed individuals.