School Racial Segregation and the Health of Black Children.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Few researchers have evaluated whether school racial segregation, a key manifestation of structural racism, affects child health, despite its potential impacts on school quality, social networks, and stress from discrimination. We investigated whether school racial segregation affects Black children's health and health behaviors.

Methods

We estimated the association of school segregation with child health, leveraging a natural experiment in which school districts in recent years experienced increased school segregation. School segregation was operationalized as the Black-White dissimilarity index. We used ordinary least squares models as well as quasi-experimental instrumental variables analysis, which can reduce bias from unobserved confounders. Data from the Chi

SUBMITTER: Wang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9173588 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature