Collaborative Research: Understanding the Long-Run Effects of School Desegregation on Political and Social Preferences

合作研究：了解学校废除种族隔离对政治和社会偏好的长期影响

• 批准号: 2018614
• 负责人: Ethan Kaplan
• 金额: $ 25.46万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2018614&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Understanding; Long; Run

Busing was one of the two main ways through which public schools were desegregated in the post-Civil Rights era. While the effects of busing on educational outcomes have been studied, not much is known about the long term effects of busing on political ideology and social interactions. This research project will use historical data combined with a large survey data to study the long-run effects of busing on political, ideology, and racial attitudes of those who actually experienced busing. This study uses data from the “Louisville Experiment” in which a lottery system was used to assign some white students to be bused to minority schools for two years while others were bused for one year with others not being bused at al. The researchers use this variation is busing assignment across different cohorts and between groups of students to study the effects of busing on political attitudes. This research results will provide a broader understanding of the effects of busing and its unintended effects generally.This research project combines archival data, a large survey data, and a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to estimate the causal impact of being bused on political preferences forty-five years later using a natural experiment from the mid-1970s in Louisville, KY. The “Louisville Experiment” assigned students to be bused at different ages based on the first letter of their last name. For the initial cohorts of whites, this resulted in some students being assigned to two years of busing while others received only one year or no busing. Using this variation across cohorts and between groups of students with different last names, the research project will estimate the long-run causal impact of busing on political preferences and attitudes. Specifically, the PIs use difference-in-difference methods to estimate the causal effects of busing on partisanship, voter turn-out, and political donations. The research will also investigate the effects of busing on racial attitudes and support for income support programs. The results of this research will provide a better understanding of the long-term broader impacts of integration programs. It could inform policies to improve racial integration and probably improve social harmony.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

校车接送是后民权时代公立学校废除种族隔离的两种主要方式之一。虽然校车接送对教育成果的影响已经研究过，但对校车接送对政治意识形态和社会互动的长期影响知之甚少。 本研究项目将使用历史数据结合大量调查数据，研究校车接送对实际经历过校车接送的人的政治、意识形态和种族态度的长期影响。 这项研究使用的数据从“路易斯维尔实验”中，彩票系统被用来分配一些白色学生被校车接送到少数民族学校两年，而其他人被校车接送了一年，其他人没有被校车接送在al.The研究人员使用这种变化是校车分配在不同的队列和学生群体之间研究校车接送对政治态度的影响。 这项研究结果将提供一个更广泛的理解的影响，巴士和它的意想不到的影响generally.This研究项目结合档案数据，一个大的调查数据，和一个差异中的差异估计策略，估计的因果关系的影响，被巴士对政治偏好45年后，使用一个自然的实验，从20世纪70年代中期在路易斯维尔，KY。 “路易斯维尔实验”根据学生姓氏的第一个字母，将学生分配到不同年龄的公共汽车上。对于最初的白人群体，这导致一些学生被分配到两年的校车，而其他人只收到一年或没有校车。该研究项目将利用不同群体和不同姓氏学生群体之间的这种差异，估计公交车对政治偏好和态度的长期因果影响。具体来说，PI使用差异中的差异方法来估计巴士对党派，选民投票率和政治捐款的因果关系。 这项研究还将调查校车接送对种族态度和对收入支持计划的支持的影响。 这项研究的结果将提供一个更好的理解的长期更广泛的影响融合方案。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。