Unmasking racial avoidance: Experimental evidence on parental school choice and public health policies during the Covid-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 drastically changed the school choice landscape as families considered schools with varying public health protocols as well as academic and demographic characteristics. Our understanding of families' preferences during the pandemic is limited, however, because it primarily derives from surveys asking parents about a single school characteristic.

Objective

We aimed to understand how families' preferences for schools' racial composition and public health policies may interdepend.

Methods

We conducted an original school choice survey experiment with U.S. White parents in August 2021. Parents indicated their willingness to enroll their student in hypothetical schools with experimentally randomized school quality ratings, racial and socioeconomic demogr

SUBMITTER: Hailey CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10108560 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature