TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Poutvaara, Panu
AU  - Ropponen, Olli
        TI  - School Shootings and Student Performance
        PY  - 2010/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5009
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5009
        AB  - 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 perform a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the school shooting affected the test scores compared to previous years. We find that the average score of young men declined due to the school shooting, whereas we do not observe a similar pattern for women.
        KW  - school shootings
KW  - school performance
KW  - shocking news
KW  - gender differences
KW  - treatment effect models
        ER  -