PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Brendan Bartanen
AU  - Jason A. Grissom
TI  - School Principal Race, Teacher Racial Diversity, and Student Achievement
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.58.4.0218-9328R2
DP  - 2023 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 666--712
VI  - 58
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/58/2/666.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/58/2/666.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2023 Mar 01; 58
AB  - Exploiting variation from principal and teacher transitions over long administrative data panels from Missouri and Tennessee, we estimate the effects of principal race on the racial composition of a school’s teachers. Evidence from the two states is strikingly similar. Principals increase the proportion of same-race teachers in the school by 1.9–2.3 percentage points, on average. Both increased hiring and increased retention of same-race teachers explain this compositional change. Further, leveraging longitudinal student-level data from Tennessee, we find that having a same-race principal improves math achievement, but this effect largely operates through avenues other than the racial composition of the teaching staff.