Unmasking racial avoidance: Experimental evidence on parental school choice and public health policies during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Background: COVID-19 drastically changed the school choice landscape as families considered schools with varying public health protocols as well as academic and demographic characteristics. Our understanding of families' preferences during the pandemic is limited, however, because it primarily derives from surveys asking parents about a single school characteristic.

Objective: We aimed to understand how families' preferences for schools' racial composition and public health policies may interdepend.

Racialized Perceptions of Anticipated School Belonging.

Families indicate that fit and safety are priorities in school selections. It is not clear, however, whether school racial composition shapes families' perceptions of anticipated school belonging. Using a survey experiment with students and parents actively choosing NYC schools, I find that families expressed racialized judgments of belonging.

Racial Preferences for Schools: Evidence from an Experiment with White, Black, Latinx, and Asian Parents and Students.

Most U.S. students attend racially segregated schools.

Coercive Sexual Environments: Development and Validation of a Scale.

In this article, we present the results of our efforts to develop and test a scale to operationalize and measure a neighborhood-level indicator of coercive sexual environments (CSEs), a construct emerging from our earlier work on safety and sexual threats among young girls living in chronically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Data for this study come from a survey of 124 adult and 79 youth respondents living in public housing in Washington, D.C.