RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Next Needed Thing
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 573
OP 620
DO 10.3368/jhr.52.2.0413-5571R1
VO 52
IS 2
A1 Kreisman, Daniel
YR 2017
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/52/2/573.abstract
AB 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) versus physical capital (Rosenwald) on educational inequality.