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Taking Race Out of the Equation: School Reassignment and the Structure of Peer Effects

  • Schools, colleges, and workplaces should worry of creating peer groups in which some people are isolated. However, they should also avoid creating a critical mass around certain type of person.
  • Evidence does suggests that efforts to create interactions between lower and higher types ought to maintain continuity of types.
  • Strong evidence that peer’s race, ethnicity, and income have only very slight effects once we have properly accounted for peers’ achievement. .
  • Switching from race-based to income-based desegregation has at most very slight effects, reassignments mainly affected achievement through the redistribution of lower and higher achieving peers.
  • Fears of racial, ethnic, and economic desegregation are overblown.
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