Cited by 388School Choice and PerformanceUrban, Neighborhood, and Segregation StudiesCritical Race Theory in Education

Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates

Guryan, Jonathan·2004·American Economic Review

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In 1954 the United States Supreme Court ruled that separate schools for black and white children were “inherently unequal.” This paper studies whether the desegregation plans of the next 30 years benefited black and white students in desegregated school districts. Data from the 1970 and 1980 censuses suggest desegregation plans of the 1970's reduced high school dropout rates of blacks by two to three percentage points during this decade. No significant change is observed among whites. The results are robust to controls for family income, parental education, and state- and region-specific trends, as well as to tests for selective migration.

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Authors
Guryan, J.
Affiliations
National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
Corresponding author
Guryan, Jonathan
Venue
American Economic Review
Published
2004-09-01
Volume
94
Issue
4
Pages
919-943
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2082493747
Cited by
388
References
20
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FWCI
62.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • American Economic Review (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Race Theory in Education
Keywords
school desegregation, high school dropout rates, Black students, school segregation, Brown v. Board of Education, educational inequality, selective migration

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