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School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification / Todd E. Elder, David N. Figlio, Scott A. Imberman, Claudia L. Persico.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elder, Todd E.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25829.
- NBER working paper series no. w25829
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- We use linked birth and education records from Florida to investigate how the identification of childhood disabilities varies by race and school racial composition. Using a series of decompositions, we find that black and Hispanic students are identified with disabilities at lower rates than are observationally similar white students. Black and Hispanic students are over-identified in schools with relatively small shares of minorities and substantially under-identified in schools with large minority shares. Our results are consistent with a heightened awareness among school officials of disabilities in students who are racially and ethnically distinct from the majority race in the school.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2019.
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