A school finance equalization program established in Mississippi in 1920 failed to help many of the state's Black … students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school … Black schools, those in majority-Black districts continued to experience extremely low - and even worsening - school funding …

participation and urban areas with larger numbers of alternative school districts appear to evoke a larger enrollment response. This … desegregation program and racial composition effects on academic, social, and labor market outcomes. The evidence on school …

In this paper we study the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school … school characteristics had a substantial influence on black males' earnings and educational attainment measured in 1970 … southern-born blacks who followed behind them in school by just a few years …

racial disparities in school resources in the South began narrowing 20 years before the Brown decision and that school … desegregation occurred in the South fared poorly compared to southern-born blacks who followed behind them in school by just a few …

In this paper we study the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school … school characteristics had a substantial influence on black males' earnings and educational attainment measured in 1970 … southern-born blacks who followed behind them in school by just a few years …