School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States&DAG;

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Monarrez, Tomas E.
• 署名单位: Urban Institute
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20200498
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 210-237
• 关键词: racial segregation; brown; end; desegregation; QUALITY

摘要

School segregation is determined both by residential sorting and local policies, such as the drawing of attendance boundaries and school siting. This paper develops an approach to understanding the relative importance of these factors by calculating the distance -min-imizing assignment of students to schools and assessing whether actual assignments differ systematically by race. Using census data and attendance boundary maps for nearly 1,600 school districts, I find that attendance boundaries create 5 percent more integra-tion than a distance-minimizing baseline, while school siting plays almost no role. Residential segregation alone explains more than 100 percent of school segregation in the United States. (JEL H75, I21, I28, J15, R23)