Aaronson, Daniel; Mazumder, Bhashkar - In: Journal of Political Economy 119 (2011) 5, pp. 821-821
The black-white gap in schooling among southern-born men narrowed sharply between the world wars. From 1914 to 1931, nearly 5,000 schools were constructed as part of the Rosenwald Rural Schools Initiative. Using census data and World War II records, we find that the Rosenwald program accounts...
