Educational Opportunity Research Lab

Catalog description

Educational success is shaped by educational opportunities in and out of formal schooling systems. But the extent to which educational outcomes and inequality are driven by school-based and non-school-based forces remains an open question. Nor do we have clarity on what features of schools and children's non-school experiences are most important in shaping patterns of educational success. In this year-long research lab, students will work together assembling and analyzing data to answer some of these questions. The research projects will draw on several large educational and social databases constructed by the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford including the Stanford Educational Data Archive (SEDA) and the Segregation Explorer (SegX) (see more at https://edopportunity.org). It will be especially useful for PhD students who would like to conduct research using these data.