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ERIC Number: EJ1323553
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 16
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ISSN: EISSN-2332-8584
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Socioeconomic Status, Race, and Public Support for School Integration
Carlson, Deven; Bell, Elizabeth
AERA Open, v7 n1 Jan-Dec 2021
Polling data routinely indicate broad support for the concept of diverse schools, but integration initiatives--both racial and socioeconomic--regularly encounter significant opposition. We leverage a nationally representative survey experiment to provide novel evidence on public support for integration initiatives. Specifically, we present respondents with a hypothetical referendum where we provide information on two policy options for assigning students to schools: (1) a residence-based assignment option and (2) an option designed to achieve stated racial/ethnic or socioeconomic diversity targets, with respondents randomly assigned to the racial/ethnic or socioeconomic diversity option. After calculating public support and average willingness-to-pay, our results demonstrate a clear plurality of the public preferring residence-based assignment to the racial diversity initiative, but a near-even split in support for residence-based assignment and the socioeconomic integration initiative. Moreover, we find that the decline in support for race-based integration, relative to the socioeconomic diversity initiative, is entirely attributable to White and Republican respondents.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Brown v Board of Education; Parents Involved in Community Schools v Seattle School District No 1; Meredith v Jefferson County Board of Education
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