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Kondo, Ayako Munasinghe, Lalith Roshan Sethi, Rajiv |
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Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Affluence: Implications for the Test Scores of Children Working Paper, Department of Economics, Columbia University, September 17, 2006. Also: http://www.columbia.edu/~rs328/scores.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Columbus University Keyword(s): Geocoded Data; Neighborhood Effects; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. American cities are characterized by sharp racial differences in the extent to which affluent individuals have affluent neighbors. We examine the possibility that this might help account for racial disparities in the test scores of children. We examine performance on the mathematics component of the PIAT (Peabody Individual Achievement Test), which has been administered to the children of mothers in the NLSY sample over the past two decades. We use Census data to compute, for each child, an expected value of neighborhood affluence, conditional on their race, net family income, and county of residence. We find neighborhood affluence is positively correlated with the child's score, and highly significant, despite the inclusion of a host of family and individual characteristics. |
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Kondo, Ayako, Lalith Roshan Munasinghe and Rajiv Sethi. "Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Affluence: Implications for the Test Scores of Children." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Columbia University, September 17, 2006. |