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.