TY  - JOUR
AU  - Cascio,Elizabeth
AU  - Gordon,Nora
AU  - Lewis,Ethan
AU  - Reber,Sarah
TI  - From Brown to Busing
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13279
PY  - 2007
Y2  - July 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13279
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13279.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Elizabeth U. Cascio
Department of Economics
Dartmouth College
6106 Rockefeller Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
Tel: (603) 646-4096
Fax: (603) 646-2122
E-Mail: elizabeth.u.cascio@dartmouth.edu

Nora E. Gordon
Department of Economics
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0508
Tel: 858/534-2988
Fax: 858/534-7040
E-Mail: negordon@ucsd.edu

Ethan Lewis
Department of Economics
Dartmouth College
6106 Rockefeller Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
Tel: (603) 646-2943
E-Mail: ethan.g.lewis@dartmouth.edu

Sarah J. Reber
826 Maxwell Ave
Boulder, CO 80304
Tel: 310-694-8699
E-Mail: sreber@ucla.edu
AB  - An extensive literature debates the causes and consequences of the desegregation of American schools in the twentieth century. Despite the social importance of desegregation and the magnitude of the literature, we have lacked a comprehensive accounting of the basic facts of school desegregation. This paper uses newly assembled data to document when and how Southern school districts desegregated as well as the extent of court involvement in the desegregation process over the two full decades after Brown. We also examine heterogeneity in the path to desegregation by district characteristics. The results suggest that the existing quantitative literature, which generally either begins in 1968 and focuses on the role of federal courts in larger urban districts or relies on highly aggregated data, often tells an incomplete story of desegregation.
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