Browsing SOC Faculty Publications by Author "Hunt, Matthew O."

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In search of a safe school: racialized perceptions of security and the school choice process

Billingham, Chase M.; Kimelberg, Shelley McDonough; Faude, Sarah; Hunt, Matthew O. (Taylor & Francis, 2020-01-23)

Do school security policies affect how safe parents perceive schools to be, and do they influence parental choice behavior? We address these questions using data from a survey that asked U.S. parents to evaluate hypothetical ...
School racial composition and parental choice: new evidence on the preferences of white parents in the United States

Billingham, Chase M.; Hunt, Matthew O. (SAGE Publications, 2016-04)

Racial segregation remains a persistent problem in U.S. schools. In this article, we examine how social psychological factorsin particular, individuals' perceptions of schools with varying demographic characteristicsmay ...