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American Law and Economics Review, doi:10.1093/aler/ahl001
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Evaluating the Role of Brown v. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans

Orley Ashenfelter 1, William J. Collins 2 *, and Albert Yoon 3

1 Princeton University
2 Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235
3 Northwestern University School of Law

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
William J. Collins, E-mail: william.collins{at}vanderbilt.edu


  Abstract

The public profile of the Brown v. Board of Education decision tends to overshadow the well-established fact that racial disparities in school resources in the South began narrowing 20 years before the Brown decision and that school desegregation did not begin on a large scale in the Deep South until ten years after the Brown decision. We instead view Brown as a highly visible marker of public policy’s mid-century reversal on matters of race. When we examine the labor market outcomes of male workers in 1990, we find that southern-born blacks who would have 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, relative to northern-born blacks in same age cohorts.


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