Collaborative Research: Southern Lynchings and Children's Educational Outcomes

合作研究：南方私刑和儿童的教育成果

• 批准号: 2241521
• 负责人: Kalena Cortes
• 金额: $ 20.14万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241521&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Southern; Lynchings; Children

Stressors in a child’s environment, among other things, can have significant adverse effect on the child’s educational attainment, as well as other possible outcomes. Exposure to violence, especially violence targeted at the child’s own demographic, social or faith community, can be a severe environmental stressor. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw widespread patterns of racially motivated violence, particularly in the South. This project will use newly digitized historical records from early 20th century Mississippi to study how lynchings affected the educational choices of local Black children and their families using. The research will combine county level lynching data with detailed school enrolment and attendance record of every child in Mississippi from 1927 to 1957. This detailed data set, and the exogenous nature of lynchings will allow the researchers to identify how lynchings affect children’s educational outcomes. Given the critical importance of education in reducing inequality and progressing toward racial equity in the U.S., identifying how exposure to lynchings affected educational attainment can improve our understanding of the evolution of Black-White inequality in the mid- to late-20th century South. The research results can therefore guide policies to improve educational outcomes of racial minorities, hence narrow the racial achievement gaps in the US.This project will digitize and link the Mississippi Enumeration of Educable Children, 1850-1892; 1908-1957, a newly discovered set of records created by the Mississippi Department of Education to inform allocation of state education funding across counties. These records include the school enrollment and attendance status for every child in Mississippi, biennially from 1927 to 1957, as well as information on the town of residence, school attended, and sibling links. Using these unique records, the PIs will construct a measure of historical educational attainment that will be more accurate than the self-reported educational attainment variable present in the 1940 and 1950 decennial censuses. The constructed data will allow the PIs to observe which children had completed their schooling at the time a lynching occurred in their community. The PIs will use the lynching data in the state of Mississippi and the constructed educational attainment data to estimate the causal effect of lynching on the educational attainment of different racial groups in communities where lynchings occurred during the study period. The research results can guide policies to improve educational outcomes of racial minorities, hence narrow the racial achievement gaps in the US.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

除其他外，儿童环境中的压力因素可能会对儿童的教育程度以及其他可能的结果产生严重的不利影响。接触暴力，尤其是针对儿童自身人口、社会或信仰群体的暴力，可能会造成严重的不利影响。 19 世纪末和 20 世纪初，种族动机的暴力行为十分普遍，特别是在南方。该项目将使用 20 世纪初密西西比州新的数字化历史记录来研究私刑是如何发生的。该研究将县级私刑数据与 1927 年至 1957 年密西西比州每个儿童的详细入学率和出勤记录结合起来。这一详细数据集以及私刑的外生性质将影响当地黑人儿童及其家庭的教育选择。鉴于教育对于减少美国的不平等和实现种族平等至关重要，研究人员可以确定私刑如何影响儿童的教育成果。可以提高我们对20世纪中后期南方黑人与白人不平等演变的理解，因此研究结果可以指导改善少数族裔教育成果的政策，从而缩小美国的种族成就差距。将数字化并链接《密西西比州受教育儿童枚举，1850-1892 年》；这是密西西比州教育部新发现的一组记录，用于通知各县的州教育资金分配。从 1927 年到 1957 年，每两年更新一次密西西比州每个孩子的入学率和出勤状况，以及有关居住城镇、就读学校和兄弟姐妹联系的信息，PI 将利用这些独特的记录构建历史教育程度的衡量标准。将比 1940 年和 1950 年十年一次的人口普查中自我报告的教育程度变量更加准确。构建的数据将使 PI 能够观察哪些儿童完成了学业。 PI 将使用密西西比州的私刑数据和构建的教育程度数据来估计私刑对研究期间发生私刑的社区中不同种族群体的教育程度的因果影响。研究结果可以指导改善少数族裔教育成果的政策，从而缩小美国的种族成就差距。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查进行评估，认为值得支持。标准。