ERIC Number: ED674088
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Feb
Pages: 30
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Peer Income Exposure across the Income Distribution. EdWorkingPaper No. 25-1138
Michelle Spiegel; Leah Clark; Thurston Domina; Emily Penner; Paul Hanselman; Paul Y. Yoo; Andrew Penner
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Children from families across the income distribution attend public schools, making schools and classrooms potential sites for interaction between more- and less-affluent children. However, limited information exists regarding the extent of economic integration in these contexts. We merge educational administrative data from Oregon with measures of family income derived from IRS records to document student exposure to economically diverse school and classroom peers. Our findings indicate that affluent children in public schools are relatively isolated from their less affluent peers, while low- and middle-income students experience relatively even peer income distributions. Students from families in the top percentile of the income distribution attend schools where 20 percent of their peers, on average, come from the top five income percentiles. A large majority of the differences in peer exposure that we observe arise from the sorting of students across schools; sorting across classrooms within schools plays a substantially smaller role.
Descriptors: Family Income, Interaction, Socioeconomic Status, Peer Relationship, Public Schools, Economic Factors, Educational Environment, Classroom Environment, Student Diversity, Elementary Secondary Education, Disproportionate Representation, Instructional Program Divisions, Racial Differences, Ethnicity, Rural Urban Differences
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: annenberg@brown.edu; Web site: https://annenberg.brown.edu/
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (DHHS/NIH); Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University
Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Identifiers - Location: Oregon
Grant or Contract Numbers: R01HH094007
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