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An Improved Method for Estimating School-Level Characteristics from Census Data. EdWorkingPaper No. 23-804
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Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University . 2023. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- We propose a new method for estimating school-level characteristics from publicly available census data. We use a school's location to impute its catchment area by aggregating the nearest "n" census block groups such that the number of school-aged children in those "n" block groups is just over the number of students enrolled in that school. We then weight census data by the number of school-aged children in the block-group to estimate school-level measures. We conduct several robustness checks to assess the quality of our estimates and find that our method is broadly successful in replicating known school-level characteristics and producing unbiased estimates for school-level income. This method expands the available set of school-level variables to the broader and richer set of characteristics measured in the census, which can then be used to conduct descriptive and observational research across a long time horizon.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- ED629232
- Document Type :
- Reports - Research