The Segregative Effects of Charter Schools

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Crema, Angela
• 署名单位: University of Rochester
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20230539
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: traditional public-schools; student-achievement; racial segregation; teacher quality; CHOICE; impacts; neighborhoods; COMPETITION; tracking; entry

摘要

I study the effects of charters on student racial segregation, identifying a novel mechanism: the assignment of White and non-White students to regular classrooms within their school-grade. Exploiting almost 100 entries of elementary charters in North Carolina from 1997 to 2015, I show that the announcement of an opening significantly increases classroom segregation within public schools nearby, relative to schools farther away, especially within non-majority-White schools and for charter openings that enroll a relatively large share of White students. Accounting for classrooms is unlikely to reverse the literature's conclusion that the charter effects on student segregation are modest in magnitude. (JEL H75, I21, I24, I28, J15)