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Replication Data for: How Does Minority Political Representation Affect School District Administration and Student Outcomes?

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Title Replication Data for: How Does Minority Political Representation Affect School District Administration and Student Outcomes?
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/G9ITHD
 
Creator Kogan, Vladimir
Lavertu, Stéphane
Peskowitz, Zachary
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description We employ a regression discontinuity design leveraging close school board elections to investigate how the racial and ethnic composition of California school boards affects school district administration and student achievement. We find some evidence that increases in minority representation lead to cumulative achievement gains of approximately 0.1 standard deviations among minority students by the sixth post-election year. These gains do not come at the expense of white students' academic performance, which also appears to improve. Turning to the policy mechanisms that may explain these effects, we find that an increase in minority representation leads to greater capital funding and an increase in the proportion of district principals who are non-white. We find no significant effects of minority representation on school segregation, the reclassification of English Language Learners, or teacher staffing.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Education politics
Racial representation
 
Contributor Peskowitz, Zachary
 
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