Race and School Quality Since Brown vs. Board of Education

Michael A. Boozer, Alan Krueger and Shari Wolkon

No 4109, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper presents evidence on the quality of schooling by race and ethnic origin in the United States. Although substantial racial segregation across schools exists, the average pupil-teacher ratio is approximately the same for black and white students. Hispanic students, however, on average have 10 percent more students per teacher. Relative to whites, blacks and Hispanics are less likely to use computers at school and at work. The implications of these differences in school quality for labor market outcomes are examined. We conclude by examining reasons for the increase in the black-white earnings gap since the mid-1970s.

Date: 1992-06
Note: LS
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (56)

Published as Brookings Paper on Economic Activity: Microeconomics, 1992, pp. 269-326

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w4109.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Race and School Quality Since Brown v. Board of Education (1992)
Working Paper: Race and School Quality Since Brown vs. Board of Education (1992)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:4109

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w4109

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().