Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates

By Jonathan Guryan. 2004

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Air pollution and defensive expenditures: Evidence from particulate-filtering facemasks (2017, unknown): “The true estimates are likely bounded by the FE models and dynamic models (Guryan, 2004).”
School choice with controlled choice constraints: Hard bounds versus soft bounds (2011, background): “[32], Guryan [30], Card and Rothstein [15], and others),28 on how to measure segregation and determine optimal desegregation guidelines,29 none of these papers discusses the problem of how in practice to assign students to schools while complying with these desegregation guidelines.”
Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy (2009, unknown): “1996; Guryan 2004; Hanushek et al. 2002; Hoxby 2000; and Rivkin 2000).”
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship (2011, background): “In most cases, the resources and average student achievement of schools attended by blacks would have improved markedly.30 Guryan (2004) estimates that these desegregation efforts significantly increased high school graduation rates among blacks by 2-3 percentage points but had no effect on white…”
Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap. NBER Working Paper No. 14211. (2008, unknown): “Review of the evidence surrounding desegregation actions provides limited support for positive achievement effects (Schofield (1995)); Guryan (2004) finds that desegregation reduced the probability of dropping out of high school, though data limitations and methodological concerns raise questions…”
New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement (2009, background): “More recently, Guryan (2004) examined the impact of school desegregation on the probability of dropping out of high school.”
Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in the Proportion of Low Achievers in the Classroom (2008, unknown): “…of college roommates; the literature on the effects of desegregation on the educational outcomes of white students (Angrist and Lang, 2004; Guryan, 2004); and the literature on the effects of immigrants on natives' educational outcomes (Betts, 1998; Hoxby, 1998a; Borjas, 2004; Gould, Lavy…”
Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence (2009, unknown): “The raw data show that native students who attended a school with a high concentration of immigrants in 5th grade typically had lower achievements in high school.”