A half a century has passed since the landmark decision Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned the doctrine of separate but equal in the realm of public education. This chapter attempts to summarize what we know about the impact of Brown on enrollment patterns and academic and economic...

This chapter examines the literature that attempts to measure the relationship between labor earnings and the average quality of a state's elementary and secondary schools where school quality is approximated by statewide average characteristics like the teacher–pupil ratio. We present...

If wage growth over the career results from embellishment of one's skills, then obsolescence is a matter of luck, a matter of the vagaries of market demand and of innovations that prize alternative skills. If wage growth results from learning and adapting to change, then obsolescence is the...