School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification

We are grateful to the Florida Department of Health and Florida Department of Education for providing us access to merged education and health data for the purposes of this project, and for the technical support in interpreting the key variables described herein. The opinions expressed herein do not represent the views of the Florida Departments of Education or Health. Initial financial support for data construction from the Gates Foundation and the US Department of Education is greatly appreciated. We thank seminar participants at Cornell University, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Purdue University, Syracuse University, University of Arizona, University of Chicago, University of South Carolina, University of Southern Denmark, and University of Tennessee for valuable input to the project. We are especially grateful to Derek Neal and the participants at the Cowles Foundation Conference in honor of Joseph Altonji’s 65th Birthday. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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• July 19, 2019