Disparities and Discrimination in Student Discipline by Race and Family Income

Black and poor students are suspended from U.S. schools at higher rates than White and nonpoor students. While the existence of these disparities has been clear, the causes of the disparities have not. We use a novel data set to examine how and where discipline disparities arise. By comparing the punishments given to Black and White (or poor and nonpoor) 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.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  The Journal of human resources

• Publication date

  2019-09-16

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3368/jhr.56.3.0118-9267r2
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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