School Shootings and the Economy

Guest: Adam Pah, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management At an elementary school in San Bernardino, California today, two adults were killed and two students injured in what officials are calling a murder-suicide.  A team of researchers at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management recently combed through school shooting data back to the early ‘90s to try and understand what motivates these tragedies. In the process, they discovered a surprising correlation to economic factors such as unemployment and foreclosure rates.