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Does the salience of race mitigate gaps in disciplinary outcomes? Evidence from school fights

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  • Raze, Kyle
  • Waddell, Glen R.

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Racial gaps in the adjudication of student misconduct are well documented—relative to white students engaged in similar behaviors, students of color are more likely to be disciplined and the discipline they receive tends to be harsher. We show that racial disparities in the adjudication of fighting infractions depend on the racial composition of incidents. While significant disparities exist within schools, we find little if any within-incident disparities. Examining disparities across fights, we show that students of color are punished more severely, on average, as fights involving only students of color are punished more severely than fights involving only white students. Moreover, students of color in multi-race fights receive punishments that are statistically indistinguishable from those assigned to white students in fights involving only white students, suggesting that disparities arise from the differential adjudication of incidents by their racial composition rather than from the differential adjudication of students within the same incident.

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  • Raze, Kyle & Waddell, Glen R., 2024. "Does the salience of race mitigate gaps in disciplinary outcomes? Evidence from school fights," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 102(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecoedu:v:102:y:2024:i:c:s0272775724000724
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102578
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    Keywords

    Student behavior; School discipline; Racial disparities;
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    JEL classification:

    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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