Racial Discrimination in Charter Schools: A Large-Scale Field Experiment Exploring the Causal Mechanism of Discrimination

• In Event: The Politics of Administrative Burdens: Evidence from Elected Officials, Mass Public and Street-level Bureaucrats

Brief Overview

We examine if charter schools subject for financial and performance pressures will engage in cream-skimming by imposing more administrative burdens on families that will be seen as harder to serve.

Authors

• Sebastian Jilke, Rutgers University-Newark

• Elizabeth Anne Bell, Miami University