participants at the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network’s (CLSRN’s) 7th annual

We analyze how fatal shootings in high schools affect schools and students using data from shooting databases, school report cards, and the Common Core of Data. We examine schools ’ test scores, enrollment, and number of teachers, as well as graduation, attendance, and suspension rates at schools that experienced a shooting, employing a difference-in-differences strategy that uses other high schools in the same district as the comparison group. Our findings suggest that homicidal shootings significantly decrease the enrollment of students in grade 9 (the high-school entrance grade), and test scores in math and English. We find no statistically significant effect for suicidal shootings on all outcome variable of interest. Using student-level data from California, we confirm that shootings affect students that remain enrolled, and the effect is not only through a composition effect