To estimate the local effect of establishing land grant colleges, I compare locations that receive a land grant college to "runner-up" counties that were in contention to receive the land grant but did not for as-good-as-random reasons. I find that establishing a land grant college causes an...

Recent research has found that differences in neighborhood segregation explain black-white inequality in education attainment and that these differences matter more than school characteristics. In recent years, neighborhood segregation has persisted at high levels in many metropolitan areas with...