From Brown to busing
By: Elizabeth Cascio ... [et al.]
Contributors: Cascio, Elizabeth U.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 13279.; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 13279.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Segregation in education -- United States -- Mathematical models; Busing for school integration -- United States -- Mathematical models
Description: An extensive literature debates the causes and consequences of the desegregation of American schools in the twentieth century. Despite the social importance of desegregation and the magnitude of the literature, we have lacked a comprehensive accounting of the basic facts of school desegregation. This paper uses newly assembled data to document when and how Southern school districts desegregated as well as the extent of court involvement in the desegregation process over the two full decades after Brown. We also examine heterogeneity in the path to desegregation by district characteristics. The results suggest that the existing quantitative literature, which generally either begins in 1968 and focuses on the role of federal courts in larger urban districts or relies on highly aggregated data, often tells an incomplete story of desegregation.
Notes: "July 2007"

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