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Education and Incarceration in the Jim Crow South

Evidence from Rosenwald Schools

Katherine Eriksson
Journal of Human Resources, January 2020, 55 (1) 43-75; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.55.2.0816.8142R
Katherine Eriksson
Katherine Eriksson is assistant professor of Economics at the University of California–Davis, a faculty research fellow at the NBER, and a research associate at the University of Stellenbosch.
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