Author: Poutvaara, Panu
Title: School Shootings and Student Performance
Summary: This paper studies 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, it was possible to perform a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the school shooting affected the text scores compared to previous years. The study found that the average score of young men declined due to the school shooting, whereas there was not a similar pattern for women.
Details: Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2010. 20p.
Source: Internet Resource; IZA Discussion Paper No. 5009
Year: 2010
Country: Finland
URL:
Shelf Number: 119136
Keywords:
GenderSchool Shootings (Finland)School ViolenceViolent Crime |
