Local Responses to Federal Grants: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Gordon, Nora; Reber, Sarah
• 署名单位: Dartmouth College; Georgetown University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.5.3.126
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 126-159
• 关键词: school-desegregation; student-achievement; education; RESOURCES; QUALITY; brown

摘要

We analyze the effects of the introduction of Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, a large federal grants program designed to increase poor students' educational services and achievement. We focus on the South, the poorest region of the country. Title I increased school spending by $0.50 on the dollar in the average southern school district and by more in districts with less ability to offset grants through local tax reductions. Title I-induced increases in school budgets appear to have reduced high school dropout rates of whites, but not blacks.