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“I find significant, negative effects of police violence on the educational attainment of black and Hispanic students… Police killings may have large long-run effects on local communities."

Excellent & important paper by @ProfDesmondAng showing that exposure to police killings of minorities (especially unarmed ones) has persistent negative effects on educational outcomes for minorities: https://t.co/V6crL9BmUg; @EducationNext summary at: https://t.co/Bg7OLIdWMT pic.twitter.com/S2Cl2NlZUb

— Karthik Muralidharan (@karthik_econ) June 9, 2020

The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Ang, Desmond

in Press, 2020

10.1093/qje/qjaa027

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