%0 Report
        %A Rossin-Slater, Maya
%A Schnell, Molly
%A Schwandt, Hannes
%A Trejo, Sam
%A Uniat, Lindsey
        %T Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use
        %D 2019
        %8 2019 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12837
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12837
        %X 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. 
        %K antidepressants
%K youth mental health
%K school shootings