Abstract
The public profile of the Brown v. Board of Education decision tends to overshadow the well-established fact that racial disparities in school resources in the South began narrowing 20 years before the Brown decision and that school desegregation did not begin on a large scale in the Deep South until ten years after the Brown decision. We instead view Brown as a highly visible marker of public policy's mid-century reversal on matters of race. When we examine the labor market outcomes of male workers in 1990, we find that southern-born blacks who would have finished their schooling just before effective desegregation occurred in the South fared poorly compared to southern-born blacks who followed behind them in school by just a few years, relative to northern-born blacks in same age cohorts.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 213-248 |
Number of pages | 36 |
Journal | American Law and Economics Review |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2006 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Finance
- Law