School District Boundaries and Segregation: Evidence from Secessions
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Using a novel dataset of 175 unique instances since 1985 of United States metropolitan areas seeking to secede and form new, independent school districts, this paper examines the causal effect of a school district secession on segregation within the originally defined district boundaries. Synthetic controls are used to compute counterfactual estimations of how segregation would have progressed in that district absent a secession. This paper finds that secession causes significant increases in income segregation. Additionally, secession produces significant increases in racial segregation in districts that are less racially homogenous at the beginning of the period analyzed in this paper. I verify these results with a battery of sensitivity tests, assessing the stability of the estimates to changes in the specification of the control pool used by the synthetic control. As a further test, I find no significant increase in segregation districts that attempted and failed to secede.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | May 20, 2020 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Kashner, Zane Ryan W |
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| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of Economics |
| Primary advisor | Hoxby, Caroline M. |
Subjects
| Subject | Department of Economics |
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| Subject | Education Economics |
| Subject | Public Economics |
| Subject | Segregation |
| Subject | Secession |
| Subject | School Districts |
| Genre | Thesis |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/mc669dw2858 |
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- Kashner, Zane Ryan W. (2020). School District Boundaries and Segregation: Evidence from Secessions. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/mc669dw2858
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