TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Rossin-Slater, Maya
AU  - Schnell, Molly
AU  - Schwandt, Hannes
AU  - Trejo, Sam
AU  - Uniat, Lindsey
        TI  - Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use
        PY  - 2019/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12837
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12837
        AB  - 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. 
        KW  - antidepressants
KW  - youth mental health
KW  - school shootings
        ER  -