Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools

For their helpful comments and questions, we are grateful to seminar participants at Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, Stanford, UBC, UCD, UCI, UCSD, UCR, the All-UC Labor Workshop, the University of Virginia, the NBER Economics of Education and Development of the American Economy program meetings, and the annual meetings of the AEA, SSHA, and SOLE. We would especially like to thank Patty Anderson, Sandra Black, Leah Platt Boustan, Ken Chay, Julie Cullen, Jon Guryan, Larry Katz, Sean Reardon, and Doug Staiger, as well as four anonymous referees. Jeremy Gerst, Maria Kahle, Farah Kaiksow, Allison Kidd, Cyrus Kosar, Eric Larsen, Patricia Tong, and Courtney Wicher provided indispensable research assistance. This research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (Award Number 0519126), the Spencer Foundation (Award Number #200600131), and the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Regional Small Grants Program. Cascio gratefully acknowledges support from a Junior Faculty Research Grant from the Institute of Governmental Affairs at UC Davis. Gordon and Reber gratefully acknowledge support from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. The data presented, the statements made, and the views expressed are solely the responsibility of the authors.
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