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Bartanen, Brendan; Grissom, Jason A.; Joshi, Ela; Meredith, Marc – AERA Open, 2018
Elected representatives' place of residence can reveal information about their socioeconomic status, their likely social networks, and potential biases in the constituencies they represent. Using data on home addresses we collected from local elections offices, we investigate the geographic distribution of school board candidates', including…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, School Districts, Geographic Distribution, Geographic Information Systems
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Shapiro, Anna; Martin, Eleanor; Weiland, Christina; Unterman, Rebecca – AERA Open, 2019
Universal public prekindergarten programs have been expanding in recent years, but not all eligible families apply to these programs, for reasons that are not well understood. Using two cohorts of students (N = 8,391) enrolled in Boston Public Schools, we use geographic information systems to combine administrative records with census data to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Behavior Patterns, Neighborhoods, Preschool Children