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Disparities and Discrimination in Student Discipline by Race and Family Income

Nathan Barrett, Andrew McEachin, Jonathan N. Mills and Jon Valant
Published online before print September 16, 2019, 0118-9267R2; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.56.3.0118-9267R2
Nathan Barrett
Nathan Barrett is the Senior Director of Research at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and a non-resident fellow in economics at Tulane University. Andrew McEachin is a policy researcher in the economics, statistics, and sociology department at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Jonathan N. Mills is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Jon Valant is a Fellow in the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.
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Nathan Barrett is the Senior Director of Research at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and a non-resident fellow in economics at Tulane University. Andrew McEachin is a policy researcher in the economics, statistics, and sociology department at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Jonathan N. Mills is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Jon Valant is a Fellow in the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.
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Jonathan N. Mills
Nathan Barrett is the Senior Director of Research at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and a non-resident fellow in economics at Tulane University. Andrew McEachin is a policy researcher in the economics, statistics, and sociology department at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Jonathan N. Mills is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Jon Valant is a Fellow in the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.
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Jon Valant
Nathan Barrett is the Senior Director of Research at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and a non-resident fellow in economics at Tulane University. Andrew McEachin is a policy researcher in the economics, statistics, and sociology department at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Jonathan N. Mills is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Jon Valant is a Fellow in the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.
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Abstract

Black and poor students are suspended from U.S. schools at higher rates than white and non-poor students. While the existence of these disparities has been clear, the causes of the disparities have not. We use a novel dataset to examine how and where discipline disparities arise. By comparing the punishments given to black and white (or poor and non-poor) students who fight one another, we address a selection challenge that has kept prior studies from identifying discrimination in student discipline. We find that black and poor students are, in fact, punished more harshly than the students with whom they fight.

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Nathan Barrett, Andrew McEachin, Jonathan N. Mills, Jon Valant
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Nathan Barrett, Andrew McEachin, Jonathan N. Mills, Jon Valant
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