RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Court-Ordered Desegregation
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 559
OP 590
DO 10.3368/jhr.XL.3.559
VO XL
IS 3
A1 Reber, Sarah J.
YR 2005
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XL/3/559.abstract
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.