Chapter 17 Has School Desegregation Improved Academic and Economic Outcomes for Blacks?

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1019-1049

  Rivkin, Steven ^a   Welch, Finis ^b  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Unicon Research Corporation

Author keywords

desegregation court decisions and policies; education policy; peer racial composition effects; residential segregation; school desegregation; school integration; school quality; school segregation; treatment effects; white flight

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649342381     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0692(06)02017-4     Document Type: Review

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