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Court-Ordered Desegregation

Successes and Failures Integrating American Schools since Brown versus Board of Education

Sarah J. Reber
Journal of Human Resources, July 2005, 40 (3) 559-590; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.40.3.559
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This paper uses a new methodology to assess the effects of court-ordered desegregation plans on segregation and white enrollment. I then assess what characteristics of districts are predictive of having more or less white flight when desegregation plans are implemented. I exploit the wide variation in the timing of implementation of desegregation plans to identify their effects. I find strong evidence that segregation fell when districts implemented desegregation plans; plans were also associated with significant white enrollment losses that offset about one-third of the within-district reductions in segregation. White flight was particularly severe in districts with more public school districts in the same metropolitan area.

  • Received June 2004.
  • Accepted December 2004.

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