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The Next Needed Thing: The impact of the Jeanes Fund on Black schooling in the South, 1900–1930

Daniel Kreisman
Published online before print May 05, 2016, 0413-5571R1; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.52.2.0413-5571R1
Daniel Kreisman
Georgia State University
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I estimate the impact of two large-scale interventions aimed at improving the quality of black schooling in the South between 1900 and 1930. The first, The Julius Rosenwald Fund, focused on physical infrastructure by building nearly 5,000 schoolhouses. The second, The Anna T. Jeanes Fund, built a corps of trained Supervisors whose contributions ranged from teacher training to fundraising, hence their motto: The next needed thing. Variation in the timing and placement of these programs allows me to evaluate impacts of each and to compare per-dollar effects of investments in human resources (Jeanes) and physical capital (Rosenwald) on educational inequality.

JEL No.
  • I24
  • I25
  • N01
  • N32
  • Education
  • Achievement Gap
  • Philanthropy
  • Jeanes
  • Rosenwald
  • Received April 2016.

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Journal of Human Resources May 2016, 0413-5571R1; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.52.2.0413-5571R1

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The Next Needed Thing: The impact of the Jeanes Fund on Black schooling in the South, 1900–1930
Daniel Kreisman
Journal of Human Resources May 2016, 0413-5571R1; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.52.2.0413-5571R1
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