losses appear to be spurred both by interracial contact in districts where their children attend school and by the … racial composition and enrollment in all schools and school districts in 238 metropolitan areas. The study finds that white …

children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects among younger children), the results show no significant effects on … test scores for any age group among over 5000 children ages 6 to 20 in 2002 who were assessed four to seven years after … randomization. Program impacts on school environments were considerably smaller than impacts on neighborhoods, suggesting that …

We find a strong positive correlation between black exposure to whites in their school district and the prevalence of … propensities to have mixed-race births are more likely to live in desegregated school districts. We exploit quasi-random variation … to estimate causal effects of school desegregation on mixed-race childbearing, finding small to moderate statistically …

representative data set that includes a test of mental function for children aged eight to twelve months, we find only minor racial … inclusion of a limited set of controls. The only statistically significant racial difference is that Asian children score …

and on the utilization of medical services among children of natives and children of immigrants. Children of immigrants … Medicaid regulations, I find that recent expansions of eligibility had negligible effects on Medicaid coverage among children … of immigrants, although coverage rose among children of the native born. Among immigrants in border states, eligibility …

taken into account. Comparisons of Engel curves are also made to households in Great Britain and Germany. Results from …

school. Another, more positive consequence of this structure is to boost in-state public four-year college enrollment and … socioeconomic background, we find that lower-status youth are less likely to enter the system and less likely to succeed once they …

In this paper, we show that the design and decentralized, school-based scoring of New York's high school exit exams … her probability of graduating from high school by 27 percent. These results have important implications for educational … attainment of marginal high school graduates. For example, we estimate that the black-white graduation gap is about 5 percent …

of school quality. With a new dataset uniquely appropriate to identifying the impact of female voter enfranchisement on … education spending, we attribute up to one-third of the 1920-1940 rise in public school expenditures to the Nineteenth Amendment …. Yet the continued disenfranchisement of black southerners meant white school gains far outpaced those for blacks. As a …