Replication data for: School Desegregation, School Choice, and Changes in Residential Location Patterns by Race

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Nathaniel Baum-Snow; Byron F. Lutz

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Project Citation: 

Baum-Snow, Nathaniel, and Lutz, Byron F. Replication data for: School Desegregation, School Choice, and Changes in Residential Location Patterns by Race. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2011. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112473V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This paper examines the residential location and school choice responses to the desegregation of large urban public school districts. We decompose the well documented decline in white public enrollment following desegregation into migration to suburban districts and increased private school enrollment and find that migration was the more prevalent response. Desegregation caused black public enrollment to increase significantly outside of the South, mostly by slowing decentralization of black households to the suburbs, and large black private school enrollment declines in southern districts. Central district school desegregation generated only a small portion of overall urban population decentralization between 1960 and 1990. (JEL H75, I21, J15, R23)

Scope of Project

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      H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
      I21 Analysis of Education
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Large Metropolitan Areas in the United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1960 – 1990
Universe:  View help for Universe All metropolitan areas in the US with major school desegregation orders affecting the central school district
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) census/enumeration data; observational data; aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source US census, Welch & Light (1987)
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Metropolitan Areas, Census Tracts

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