Racial segregation and the black–white test score gap
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Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap
The impact of school segregation on student outcomes is a central concern of education policy. We compare within-city black-white test score gaps across metropolitan areas that differ in the extent of school segregation. More segregated cities have robustly larger black-white gaps in average SAT scores and in other measures of educational achievement. Using an estimator derived from control fu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.03.006