Murnane, Richard J.; Page, Lindsay C.; Willett, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We decompose black-white achievement gap trends between 1971 and 2004 into trends in within- and between-school differences. We show that the previous finding that narrowing within-school inequality explains most of the decline in the black-white achievement gap between 1971 and 1988 is...
