Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority … students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate … that the performance gap in terms of class dropout rates and grade performance between white and underrepresented minority …

the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …

the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …

survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to … minority peers decreases student effort, parental investments, and teacher engagement and it results in lower student test … scores. Observables correlated with minority status explain less than a third of the reduced-form test score effect while …

survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to … minority peers decreases student effort, parental investments, and teacher engagement and it results in lower student test … scores. Observables correlated with minority status explain less than a third of the reduced-form test score effect while …