American Law and Economics Review Advance Access originally published online on July 19, 2006
American Law and Economics Review 2006 8(2):181-182; doi:10.1093/aler/ahl010
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In 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal in the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision. At that time, schools in the South were segregated by law, and those in many other districts were de facto segregated by either official policy or housing patterns (Clotfelter, 2004
). In addition