TY  - JOUR
AU  - Clotfelter,Charles T.
TI  - Public School Segregation in Metropolitan Areas
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6779
PY  - 1998
Y2  - November 1998
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6779
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6779.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Charles T. Clotfelter
Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Box 90245 Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
Tel: 919/613-7361
E-Mail: charles.clotfelter@duke.edu
AB  - This paper presents measures of segregation in public schools for metropolitan areas.  It shows that, not only are metropolitan areas very segregated, most of that segregation is due to racial disparities between districts rather than segregative patterns within districts.  Metropolitan areas in the South and West tend to have larger districts, and thus feature less fragmentation by school district. Segregation at the metropolitan level appears to vary systematically with size, racial mix, and region.  Because larger metropolitan areas tend to have more jurisdictions and exhibit greater differences in racial composition among jurisdictions, measured segregation rises with size, as measured by school enrollment.
ER  -