School Shootings and Student Performance

Panu Poutvaara and Olli Ropponen

No 3114, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can use a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the school shooting affected the test scores compared to previous years. We find that the average performance of young men declined due to the school shooting, whereas we do not observe a similar pattern for women.

Keywords: school shootings; school performance; shocking news; gender differences; treatment effect models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 I19 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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