Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey

Robert Fairlie

Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz

Abstract: Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren. We also examine whether "white flight" is from all minorities or only from certain minority groups, delineated by race or income. We find that white families are fleeing public schools with large concentrations of poor minority schoolchildren. In addition, the clearest flight appears to occur from poor black schoolchildren. The results for "white flight" from Asians and Hispanics are less clear.

Keywords: Education; Social and Behavioral Sciences; education; race; minorities; inequality; white flight; private schools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09-23
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Working Paper: Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (2015)
Journal Article: Is There "White Flight" Into Private Schools? Evidence From The National Educational Longitudinal Survey (2002)
Working Paper: Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence From the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (2000)
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