@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp12837,
            	author={Rossin-Slater, Maya and Schnell, Molly and Schwandt, Hannes and Trejo, Sam and Uniat, Lindsey},
            	title={Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use},
            	year={2019},
	month={Dec},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={12837},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12837},
	abstract={While over 240,000 American students experienced a school shooting in the last two decades, little is known about the impacts of these events on the mental health of surviving youth. Using large-scale prescription data from 2006 to 2015, we examine the effects of 44 school shootings on youth antidepressant use in a difference-in-difference framework. We find that local exposure to fatal school shootings increases youth antidepressant use by 21.4 percent in the following two years. These effects are smaller in areas with a higher density of mental health providers who focus on behavioral, rather than pharmacological, interventions. },
	keywords={antidepressants;youth mental health;school shootings},
            }