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Finding Integrated Schools? Latino Families Settle in Diverse Suburbs, 2000–2015

Shruti Bathia, Bruce Fuller, Claudia Galindo, Francisco Lagos, Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2023, 9 (2) 104-131; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.2.05
Shruti Bathia
aPhD in statistics and measurement at the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, United States, and conducts research at Amazon
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Bruce Fuller
bProfessor in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, United States
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Claudia Galindo
cProfessor of education policy in the College of Education at the University of Maryland College Park, United States
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Francisco Lagos
dPostdoctoral associate in the College of Education at the University of Maryland College Park, United States
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Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
eStatistician at the University of California, Berkeley, United States
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Diverse Latino families continue to settle in suburbs, hunting for better neighborhoods and educational opportunities. But do they discover more integrated schools relative to segregated city schools? We find that Latino children attending suburban elementary schools were exposed to a greater share of White peers nationwide between 2000 and 2015 than were Latinos attending urban schools. But exposure to White peers in suburbs declined on average during the period. Demographic forces within suburban districts, especially rising family poverty, contribute to worsening segregation of Latino children, as do institutional features. Districts enrolling fewer children and increasing spending per pupil remained more integrated during the period, as identified by two-level fixed-effect (Mundlak) estimation. Many heavily White districts served growing shares of Latino children without losing White families.

  • Latino children
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  • © 2023 Russell Sage Foundation. Bathia, Shruti, Bruce Fuller, Claudia Galindo, Francisco Lagos, and Sophia Rabe-Hesketh. 2023. “Finding Integrated Schools? Latino Families Settle in Diverse Suburbs, 2000–2015.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(2): 104–31. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.2.05. This article stems from the Latino Contexts and Early Development Project, funded by the Spencer Foundation and the Institute of Human Development at Berkeley. Wonderfully critical comments by the editors, three anonymous reviewers, and colleagues attending a Russell Sage Foundation conference greatly improved the article. Special thanks to Ann Owens for advice on measures and methodology. The University of California Data Lab helped compile census data. Drs. Bathia and Rabe-Hesketh, along with Mr. Lagos, led the data analysis. All authors contributed equally. Direct correspondence to: Bruce Fuller, at b_fuller{at}berkeley.edu, University of California, United States.

Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Feb 2023, 9 (2) 104-131; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.2.05

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Feb 2023, 9 (2) 104-131; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.2.05
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