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This paper investigates the role of mass media in shaping racial tolerance and advancing civil rights in the post-WWII United States. We study the first attempt in the history of mass media to use a radio broadcast targeted at children to promote an inclusive American society. In 1946, amid...
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This descriptive paper documents how segregation between blacks and whites across colleges in the United States has … study the issue of segregation within colleges. The main findings are as follows: (1) White exposure to blacks has been …) A major channel for the decline in segregation is the declining share of blacks attending historically black colleges …
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relationship between school racial segregation and later-life cognition remains underexplored. We examined a nationally sample of … measuring school segregation, multilevel analyses revealed a significant negative association between school segregation and … significant among Black participants for all outcomes. Given the rising trend of school segregation in the US, educational …
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. Segregation is further exacerbated by "white flight" as white students transfer out of the district after attending more … segregated schools. Ultimately, mandated segregation decreases student test scores and college attendance. …
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also find that segregation is further exacerbated by "white flight" as white students transfer out of the district after … attending more segregated schools. Ultimately, the mandated segregation decreases student standardized test scores and four …-year college attendance. I provide suggestive evidence that the impact of racial segregation is partially mediated by changes to …
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colleges while leaving overall minority college enrollment rates unchanged. The effect of these bans on racial segregation … to estimate their effects on racial segregation, as measured by exposure and dissimilarity indexes. The results suggest … that affirmative action bans have in some cases increased segregation across colleges but in others cases may have actually …
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relationship between school racial segregation and later-life cognition remains underexplored. We examined a nationally sample of … measuring school segregation, multilevel analyses revealed a significant negative association between school segregation and … significant among Black participants for all outcomes. Given the rising trend of school segregation in the US, educational …
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Over sixty years following Brown vs. Board of Education, racial and socioeconomic segregation and lack of equal access …
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chapter, I investigate the extent to which economic models of segregation, information-based discrimination, peer dynamics … consistent with the time-series data. Segregation and models of discrimination both contradict the trends in important ways. …
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In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after primary education and grade repetition. Using variation...
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