Measuring school segregation

Measuring school segregation

Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multigroup school segregation indices: the Atkinson Indices for the class of school districts with a given …xed number of ethnic groups and the Mutual Information Index for the class of all districts. Properties of other school segregation indices are also discussed. In an empirical application, we document a weakening of the e¤ect of ethnicity...

Unpublished Appendix to “ Measuring School Segregation ”

Measuring Segregation∗

We propose a set of basic properties that any reasonable segregation index should have. We then fully characterize the class of segregation indices that satisfy these basic properties. We show that every such index has a particular simple form. Finally, we show that with one rarely used exception, each index defined in the literature violates one or more of our basic properties. Journal of Econ...

Measuring School Contexts

This article describes issues in measuring school contexts with an eye toward understanding students' experiences and outcomes. I begin with an overview of the conceptual underpinnings related to measuring contexts, briefly describe the initiatives at the National Center for Education Statistics to measure school contexts, and identify possible gaps in those initiatives that if filled could pro...

Measuring Segregation: Proofs of Miscellaneous Claims

The following claim will be used to verify that an index satisfies Continuity. Claim 1 Any index that is a continuous function of the T n g 's (the numbers of each group g in each school n) represents an ordering that satisfies the axiom of Continuity.