Evaluating the Role of Brown vs. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans

Orley Ashenfelter, William Collins and Albert Yoon
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Albert Yoon: School of Law, Northwestern University

No 515, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers from Vanderbilt University Department of Economics

Abstract: In this paper we study the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school desegregation after Brown. For cohorts born in the South in the 1920s and 1930s, we find that racial disparities in measurable school characteristics had a substantial influence on black malesÕ earnings and educational attainment measured in 1970, albeit one that was smaller in the later cohorts. When we examine the income of male workers in 1990, we find that southern-born blacks who finished their schooling just before effective desegregation occurred in the South fared poorly compared to southern-born blacks who followed behind them in school by just a few years.

Keywords: Discrimination; schooling; South; NAACP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J7 N32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-05
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Journal Article: Evaluating the Role of Brown v. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans (2006)
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Working Paper: Evaluating the Role of Brown vs. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans (2005)
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