What is the Effect of Teaching in Underserved Schools on Beliefs About Education Inequality and Reform? Evidence from Teach for America

• In Event: Education, Civic Engagement, and the Politics of Poverty and Inequality

Brief Overview

Leveraging a quasi-experimental regression discontinuity design and an original survey of over 20,000 Teach For American applicants, we find that teaching in low-income communities reduces show no or less support for highly politicized policies.

Authors

• Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, University of California, Berkeley

• Katharine Conn, Columbia University in the City of New York

• Virginia Lovison, Harvard University