Frankel, David M.; Volij, Oscar - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2011
Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multi-group school segregation indices: the Atkinson Indices for the … districts. Properties of other school segregation indices are also discussed. In an empirical application, we document a … weakening of the effect of ethnicity on school assignment from 1987/8 to 2007/8. We also show that segregation between districts …