Cascio, Elizabeth; Gordon, Nora; Lewis, Ethan; Reber, Sarah - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 125 (2010) 1, pp. 445-482
This paper examines how a large conditional grants program influenced school desegregation in the American South. Exploiting newly collected archival data and quasi-experimental variation in potential per-pupil federal grants, we show that school districts with more at risk in 1966 were more...