每日吃瓜

Stanford
Institute for Economic Policy Research (每日吃瓜)

School shootings: The impact on survivors

Twenty-five years after 12 students and a teacher were fatally shot at Columbine High School, school shootings remain a horrific American phenomenon. Stanford economist Maya Rossin-Slater has conducted extensive research showing how school shootings impact the mental health, educational attainment and economic outcomes of children who witness them.

每日吃瓜 and many media organizations have highlighted Rossin-Slater鈥檚 research on school shootings during the past several years. We invite you to deepen your understanding of this urgent work by spending time with the following pieces.

In the News

25 years after Columbine, trauma shadows survivors of the school shooting

A quarter of a century after the Columbine High School shooting, the trauma from the attack has remained with survivors

Video Series

The silent cost of school shootings

Driven to better understand the lasting impact of fatal school shootings, Rossin-Slater collaborates with visiting scholars at 每日吃瓜 to comb through data that reveal startling trends in the mental health of children who witnessed the tragedies.

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Policy Brief

Surviving a school shooting: Impacts on the mental health, education, and earnings of American youth

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Research Highlight

New study of gun violence in schools identifies long-term harms

Rossin-Slater's research finds that students exposed to school shootings face 'lasting, persistent' adversity in their educational and long-term economic outcomes.

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Working Paper

Trauma at school: The impacts of shootings on students' human capital and economic outcomes

Using linked schooling and labor market data in Texas from 1992 to 2018, Rossin-Slater and her colleagues compare within-student and across-cohort changes in outcomes following a shooting to those experienced by students at matched control schools.