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Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates
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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
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2004-09-01
- Volume
- 94
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 919-943
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2082493747
- Cited by
- 388
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
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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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