The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students*
By D. Ang. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020
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Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects of these events on the educational and psychological well-being of Los Angeles public high school students. Exploiting hyperlocal variation in how close students live to a killing, I find that exposure to police violence leads to persistent decreases in GPA, increased incidence of emotional disturbance, and lower rates of high school completion and college enrollment. These effects are driven entirely by black and Hispanic students in response to police killings of other minorities and are largest for incidents involving unarmed individuals.
Subfields: Health, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science
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- Projecting the Potential Impact of COVID-19 School Closures on Academic Achievement (2020, methodology): “Using the data from a large urban district in the Southwest, Ang (2020) demonstrated that police killings, even those that go unreported in the media, caused immediate spikes in absenteeism, decreases in grade point averages, and increased emotional disturbance for high school students who lived clo”
- The Challenges of Achieving Equity Within Public School Gifted and Talented Programs (2021, background): “In one of the most relevant and timely examples of the negative effects specific ACEs can have, Ang (2021) analyzed data from more than 700,000 high school students in one large, urban district from 2002-2003 to 2016- 2017.”