TY - JOUR T1 - School Principal Race, Teacher Racial Diversity, and Student Achievement JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 666 LP - 712 DO - 10.3368/jhr.58.4.0218-9328R2 VL - 58 IS - 2 AU - Brendan Bartanen AU - Jason A. Grissom Y1 - 2023/03/01 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/58/2/666.abstract N2 - 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. ER -