"Data and Code for: The Effect of Charter Schools on School Segregation"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Tomas Monarrez, Urban Institute; Brian Kisida, University of Missouri; Matthew Chingos, Urban Institute

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Project Citation:

Monarrez, Tomas, Kisida, Brian, and Chingos, Matthew. “Data and Code for: The Effect of Charter Schools on School Segregation.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-01-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/E131961V1

Project Description

Summary: We examine the impact of the charter school movement on racial segregation in public schools, defined using varying measures of racial sorting and isolation. We identify impacts using between-grade differences in charter expansion within school systems, and an instrumental variables approach leveraging event variation from school openings. Charter schools modestly increase school segregation for Black, Hispanic, Asian, and White students. Charters on average have driven a 6\% increase in sorting of Black and Hispanic students in public schools. Analysis across varied geographies reveals countervailing forces. In metropolitan areas, charters reduce demographic differences between districts, especially in areas fragmented into many jurisdictions.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: racial segregation; school choice; educational opportunities

JEL Classification:
I24 Education and Inequality
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

Geographic Coverage: US school districts, census places, counties, and metropolitan areas

Time Period(s): 1998 – 2018

Universe: Public school systems in the US

Data Type(s): census/enumeration data

Methodology

Sampling: Census of US public schools

Data Source: U.S. Department of Education's National Center of Education Statistics, Common Core of Data

Unit(s) of Observation: Counties, School districts, Public schools, Census Places

Geographic Unit: Public schools

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