Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185062 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11602
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to seven school districts serving higher-income, predominantly-white families. While prior research has studied the impacts of such a program receiving students, this paper studies the effects on participating students. In the short run, students who receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in several subjects. In the medium run, college enrollment increases by 8 percentage points for these students. This is due to greater attendance at two-year colleges. There is no overall effect on the likelihood of voting. However, the offer to transfer significantly increases the likelihood of arrest. This is driven primarily by increases in arrests for non-violent offenses. Almost all of these effects - both the risks and the benefits - stem from impacts on male students. Male students have higher test scores, college enrollment rates, and are significantly more likely to vote, but they also experience nearly all of the effects on arrests.
Subjects: 
desegregation
education
inequality
JEL: 
I20
I21
I24
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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