Owens, Ann
Researchers: Ann Owens
University Affiliation: University of Southern California
Email: annowens@usc.edu
Research Question:
How segregated are schools in the 100 largest metropolitan areas by income from the 1990s to the late 2000s? What are possible causes for segregation between the school districts?
Published: 0
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Year: 2014
Findings:
- District fragmentation is positively associated with economic segregation for both households without children and public school families.
- The amount of students enrolled in private schools negatively and significantly predicts between-district economic segregation only for public school families.
- Growing income inequality leads to growing inequality in contexts and institutions that shape economic opportunity.
- Neighborhood income positively predicts economic segregation for public school families, in that the public school are segregated from all others.
- Economic segregation of childless households between districts is lowered in the metro areas when there is a growing proportion of poor residents living in the suburbs.