Rossin-Slater, Maya; Schnell, Molly; Schwandt, Hannes; … - 2019
While over 240,000 American students experienced a school shooting in the last two decades, little is known about the … examine the effects of 44 school shootings on youth antidepressant use in a difference-in-difference framework. We find that … local exposure to fatal school shootings increases youth antidepressant use by 21.4 percent in the following two years …