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- Title
School Segregation, Educational Attainment, and Crime: Evidence from the End of Busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg*.
- Authors
Billings, Stephen B.; Deming, David J.; Rockoff, Jonah
- Abstract
We study the end of race-based busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools (CMS). In 2001, school boundaries in CMS were redrawn dramatically, and half of students received a new assignment. Using addresses measured prior to the policy change, we compare students in the same neighborhood that lived on opposite sides of a newly drawn boundary. We find that both white and minority students score lower on high school exams when they are assigned to schools with more minority students. We also find decreases in high school graduation and four-year college attendance for whites and large increases in crime for minority males. We conclude that the end of race-based busing widened racial inequality, despite efforts by CMS to mitigate the effect of segregation through compensatory resource allocation. JEL Codes: I20, I24.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SEGREGATION in education; CHARLOTTE-Mecklenburg Schools; SECONDARY education; PUBLIC schools; RESOURCE management; ENTERPRISE resource planning; COMMUNITY support
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, Vol 129, Issue 1, p435
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/qje/qjt026