Collins, William J.; Margo, Robert A. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 107-154). 2006
In this chapter we present an overview of the history of racial differences in schooling in the United States. We present basic data on literacy, school attendance, educational attainment, various measures of school quality, and the returns to schooling. Then, in the context of a simple model of...
