PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Reber, Sarah J.
TI  - Court-Ordered Desegregation
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.40.3.559
DP  - 2005 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 559--590
VI  - 40
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/40/3/559.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/40/3/559.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2005 Jul 01; 40
AB  - 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.