The Effect of High School Shootings on Schools and Student Performance

Louis-Philippe Beland and Dongwoo Kim

Departmental Working Papers from Department of Economics, Louisiana State University

Abstract: We analyze how fatal shootings in high schools affect schools and students using data from shooting databases, school report cards and the Common Core of Data. We examine schools� test scores, enrollment, number of teachers, graduation, attendance and suspension rates at schools that experienced a shooting, employing a difference-in-differences strategy that uses other high schools in the same district as the comparison group. Our findings suggest that homicidal shootings significantly decrease the enrollment of students in grade 9 and test scores in math and English standardized tests. Using student-level data from California, we confirm that shootings lower test results for students that remain enrolled.

Date: 2015-05
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Working Paper: The Effect of High School Shootings on Schools and Student Performance (2014)
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