Billings, Stephen B.; Rockoff, Jonah - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 129 (2014) 1, pp. 435-476
We study the end of race-based busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools (CMS). In 2001, school boundaries in CMS were redrawn dramatically, and half of students received a new assignment. Using addresses measured prior to the policy change, we compare students in the same neighborhood that lived...