Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement across School Districts in the United States

Torrats-Espinosa will explore how changes in crime rates over time in both school districts and cities affect racial and ethnic achievement gaps in those places. He will use achievement data from SEDA along with data on police department funding and information on opiate overdoses from the National Center for Health Statistics to investigate the links between spikes in crime rates due to the heroin and opiate epidemic and students’ academic performance.