Public School Segregation in Metropolitan Areas

Charles Clotfelter ()

No 6779, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper presents measures of segregation in public schools for metropolitan areas. It shows that, not only are metropolitan areas very segregated, most of that segregation is due to racial disparities between districts rather than segregative patterns within districts. Metropolitan areas in the South and West tend to have larger districts, and thus feature less fragmentation by school district. Segregation at the metropolitan level appears to vary systematically with size, racial mix, and region. Because larger metropolitan areas tend to have more jurisdictions and exhibit greater differences in racial composition among jurisdictions, measured segregation rises with size, as measured by school enrollment.

JEL-codes: J15 R2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-11
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Published as Clotfelter, Charles T. "Public School Segregation," Land Economics, 1999, v75(4,Nov), 487-504.

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