ERIC Number: EJ1334248
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Apr
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0038-0407
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Racial Preferences for Schools: Evidence from an Experiment with White, Black, Latinx, and Asian Parents and Students
Sociology of Education, v95 n2 p110-132 Apr 2022
Most U.S. students attend racially segregated schools. To understand this pattern, I employ a survey experiment with New York City families actively choosing schools and investigate whether they express racialized school preferences. I find school racial composition heterogeneously affects white, black, Latinx, and Asian parents' and students' willingness to attend schools. Independent of characteristics potentially correlated with race, white and Asian families preferred white schools over black and Latinx schools, Latinx families preferred Latinx schools over black schools, and black families preferred black schools over white schools. Results, importantly, demonstrate that racial composition has larger effects on white and Latinx parents' preferences compared with white and Latinx students and smaller effects on black parents compared with black students. To ensure results were not an artifact of experimental conditions, I validate findings using administrative data on New York City families' actual school choices in 2013. Both analyses establish that families express heterogenous racialized school preferences.
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, School Choice, Racial Composition, Whites, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Racial Differences, Racial Discrimination, Educational Environment, High Schools, High School Students, Individual Characteristics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (DHHS/NIH)
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
Grant or Contract Numbers: P2CHD042849