TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ashenfelter,Orley
AU  - Collins,William J.
AU  - Yoon,Albert
TI  - Evaluating the Role of Brown vs. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11394
PY  - 2005
Y2  - June 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11394
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11394.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Orley C. Ashenfelter
Industrial Relations Section
Firestone Library
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ  08544
Tel: 609/258-4040
Fax: 609/258-2907
E-Mail: c6789@princeton.edu

William J. Collins
Department of Economics
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B #351819
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235-1819
Tel: 615/322-3428
Fax: NA
E-Mail: william.collins@vanderbilt.edu

Albert Yoon
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
84 Queen's Park Blvd
Toronto, ON M5S 2C5
Tel: 312-503-3497
E-Mail: albert.yoon@utoronto.ca
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2005-12-01
AB  - In this paper we study the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school desegregation after Brown. For cohorts born in the South in the 1920s and 1930s, we find that racial disparities in measurable school characteristics had a substantial influence on black males' earnings and educational attainment measured in 1970, albeit one that was smaller in the later cohorts. When we examine the income of male workers in 1990, we find that southern-born blacks who finished their schooling just before effective desegregation occurred in the South fared poorly compared to southern-born blacks who followed behind them in school by just a few years.
ER  -