3 papers
stat.ME2023
Differences in academic preparedness do not fully explain Black-White enrollment disparities in advanced high school coursework
João M. Souto-Maior, Ravi Shroff
Whether racial disparities in enrollment in advanced high school coursework can be attributed to differences in prior academic preparation is a central question in sociological res…
physics.soc-ph2023
Conceptualizing educational opportunity hoarding: the emergence of hoarding without hoarders
João M. Souto-Maior
Social scientists increasingly use the concept of opportunity hoarding to explain the formation of Black-White educational inequalities. However, this concept is often loosely defi…
physics.soc-ph2023
The presence of White students and the emergence of Black-White within-school inequalities: two interaction-based mechanisms
João M. Souto-Maior
This article investigates mechanism-based explanations for a well-known empirical pattern in sociology of education, namely, that Black-White unequal access to school resources --…