We document externalities of the civic unrest experienced in Ferguson, MO following the police shooting of an unarmed … black teenager. Difference-in-differences and synthetic control method estimates compare Ferguson-area schools to … absence increased by five percent in Ferguson-area schools. Impacts were concentrated in elementary schools and at the bottom …

We document externalities of the civic unrest experienced in Ferguson, MO following the police shooting of an unarmed … black teenager. Difference-in-differences and synthetic control method estimates compare Ferguson-area schools to … absence increased by five percent in Ferguson-area schools. Impacts were concentrated in elementary schools and at the bottom …