Trauma at school: The impacts of shootings on students' human capital and economic outcomes
Presented by Assistant Professor Molly Schnell (Northwestern University, USA)
We examine how shootings at schools—an increasingly common form of gun violence in the United States—impact the short- and long-run educational and economic trajectories of students. Using linked schooling and labor market data in Texas from 1992–2018, we compare within-student and across-cohort changes in outcomes following a shooting to those experienced by students at matched control schools.
We find that school shootings increase absenteeism and grade repetition; reduce high school graduation, college enrollment, and college completion; and reduce employment and earnings at ages 24–26. These effects span student and school characteristics, suggesting that the economic costs of school shootings are universal.
Speaker
Molly Schnell is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University and a faculty research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research examines how incentives and constraints facing both providers and consumers influence health care access, health behaviors, and health outcomes.
Schnell spent 2018–19 as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford after receiving her PhD in economics from Princeton. She has written policy briefs on the recent opioid crisis for the Harvard Business Review, Brookings Institute, and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Her research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and Journal of Public Economics, among others. Media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist have featured her work.
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As part of the Centre of Health Economics' vibrant research culture, we host a weekly seminar series where visiting and invited researchers present current research relating to the economics of health and wellbeing, and the healthcare sector. Visitors are welcome to join these sessions where discussion and debate is encouraged.
Contact shannon.stanwell@monash.edu for registration details.
Event Details
- Date:
- 20 October 2021 at 9:00 am – 10:00 am
- Venue:
- Online
- Categories:
- Health Economics; CHE Seminar
Description
Presented by Assistant Professor Molly Schnell (Northwestern University, USA)
We examine how shootings at schools—an increasingly common form of gun violence in the United States—impact the short- and long-run educational and economic trajectories of students. Using linked schooling and labor market data in Texas from 1992–2018, we compare within-student and across-cohort changes in outcomes following a shooting to those experienced by students at matched control schools.
We find that school shootings increase absenteeism and grade repetition; reduce high school graduation, college enrollment, and college completion; and reduce employment and earnings at ages 24–26. These effects span student and school characteristics, suggesting that the economic costs of school shootings are universal.
Speaker
Molly Schnell is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University and a faculty research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research examines how incentives and constraints facing both providers and consumers influence health care access, health behaviors, and health outcomes.
Schnell spent 2018–19 as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford after receiving her PhD in economics from Princeton. She has written policy briefs on the recent opioid crisis for the Harvard Business Review, Brookings Institute, and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Her research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and Journal of Public Economics, among others. Media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist have featured her work.
Register now
As part of the Centre of Health Economics' vibrant research culture, we host a weekly seminar series where visiting and invited researchers present current research relating to the economics of health and wellbeing, and the healthcare sector. Visitors are welcome to join these sessions where discussion and debate is encouraged.
Contact shannon.stanwell@monash.edu for registration details.