This paper studies how sibling gender composition affects preferences for education within STEM and whether the e?ects on STEM preferences in education persists into labor market outcomes.
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ClearWomen in Technology: College Experiences that are Correlated with Long-term Career Success
The purpose of this study is to identify key college experiences that are correlated with long-term success for female technologists. Research questions include whether long-term career success is more likely for female technology graduates who, during their undergraduate studies, (1) personally interacted with professional and academic role models, (2) were able to apply their classroom learning to real world problems, and (3) actively participated in campus life.
Long-Run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments NBER #16664
What are the long-run impacts of court-ordered school desegregation plans on adult attainments?
Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism
1) What was the trajectory of integration in Baltimore schools? 2) What structures and ideologies fueled rampant school resegregation?
Long-Term Correlates of High School Racial Composition: Perpetuation Theory Re-Examined
Examine long-term influences of high school racial composition on students’ later racial isolation in the workplace in 1994 & 2000.
Both Sides Now: The Story of School Desegregation's Graduates
Firsthand account by Blacks, Whites, and Latinos who graduated in 1980 of how desegregation affected them during high school and later in life.
Measuring School Racial Composition and Student Outcomes in a Multiracial Society
What are the benefits of school desegregation and diversity measured by a nonacademic outcome with social implications (comfort working).
Evaluating the Role of Brown vs. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation and the Income of African Americans
Discuss a framework for evaluating the effect of Brown on the welfare of African Americans in the labor market.
Gender-Specific Effects of Ecological Segregation on College Achievement
Specify a comprehensive path model estimated separately fro male and female respondents to the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen.
The Impact of Group Diversity on Performance and Knowledge Spillover- An Experiment in a College Classroom
Examined how group characteristics affect productivity.
The Impact of Racially Inclusive Schooling on Adult Incarceration Rates Among U.S. Cohorts of African Americans and Whites Since 1930
Test if more racially inclusive schools might reduce the risk of extremely negative adult life experiences such as incarceration.
Social Background and Academic Performance Differentials: White and Minority Students at Selective Colleges
Study the continuing consequences of segregation.
The Effect of Childhood Segregation on Minority Academic Performance at Selective Colleges
Effects of housing and school segregation during childhood on academic performance in college.
Learning Through Experience: What Graduates Gained by Attending Desegregated High Schools
Examines students’ experiences from attending a desegregated high school.
Fifty Years after Brown: New Evidence of the Impact of School Racial Composition on Student Outcomes
Expand the discussion of the impact of desegregation beyond the traditional test measures & including racial groups that have been largely ignored.
Who Graduates in the South?
Who Graduates in the South?
How Desegregation Changed Us: The Effects of Racially Mixed Schools on Students and Society
Ideas of graduates, educators, advocates and local policy makers who were directly involved in racially mixed public high schools 25 years ago.
After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation
An assessment of how Brown v. Board of Education’s most visible effect – the contact between students of different racial groups – has changed over the past 50 years.
Fifty Years after Brown: The Benefits and Tradeoffs for African American Educators and Students
Examines the benefits and tradeoffs for African American professional educators and students that resulted from Brown.
Projections of 2003-2004: Supplemental Analyses Based on Findings from Who Graduates? Who Doesn't?
Computes the numbers of students expected to graduate from public high schools by the end of the 2003-2004 school year
How Society Failed School Desegregation Policy: Looking Past the Schools to Understand Them
Aims to understand why desegregation policy has failed to achieve the goals set out by Brown v. Board and how research on school desegregation has contributed to these shortcomings.
Educational Benefits of Racially and Ethnically Diverse School
Summarizes research on school desegregation and the benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in K-12 schooling.
Interracial Contact in High School Extracurricular Activities
Document and measure the extent of interracial contact within schools.
Diversity and Educational Quality
Why benefits of diversity are part of educational quality?
Maximizing the Benefits of Student Diversity: Lessons from School Desegregation Research
Summarizes research on effects of desegregation in elementary and secondary schools
School Desegregation, Academic Attainment and Earnings
Whether desegregation programs have raised lifetime earnings for blacks, through interracial contact or improvements in school quality.
Expert Report of Patricia Gurin-Gratz et. al. v. Bollinger et. al.
Expert report from Gratz and Grutter
Outcomes of School Desegregation: Findings from Longitudinal Research
Important noncognitive outcomes of school desegregation.
Does School Quality Explain the Recent Black/White Wage Trend?
Whether educational quality can explain the break in the trend toward black/white wage equality.
Why Desegregate? The Effect of School Desegregation on Adult Occupational Desegregation of African Americans, Whites and Hispanics
Studies the relationship between attending desegregated high schools and desegregated adult workplaces.
The Continuing Significance of Desegregation: School Racial Composition and African American Inclusion in American Society
Summarizes research on the long term consequences of desegregation.
Race and School Quality Since Brown vs. Board of Education
Analyzes racial disparities in school quality since the 1950s and the implications of differential school quality for labor market outcomes (wage gap)
The Social Consequences of Growing Up in a Poor Neighborhood
Determine how much effect the social composition of a neighborhood or school has on children’s life chances.
Social-Psychological Processes that Perpetuate Racial Segregation: The Relationship Between School and Employment Desegregation
Study processes that perpetuate segregation.
The Social and Academic Consequences of School Desegregation
Reviews the literature on long term social consequences of school desegregation, & how to opearte desegregated schools effectively.
Black Students' Occupational Expectations: A National Study of the Impact of School Desegregation
How is school desegregation related to job expectations for African Americans?
Tracking and Ability Grouping in American Schools: Some Constitutional Questions
Examine from a constitutional perspective the bases on which ability grouping and tracking might be challenged as barriers to equal educational opp.
Segregation and Rationality in Black Status Aspiration Processes
Is organizational influence (segregated vs. desegregated schooling) important for rational plans of action related to status outcomes?
The Perpetuation of Segregation Across Levels of Education: A Behavioral Assessment of the Contact Hypothesis
Examines if black students who attend desegregated high schools are more likely to attend desegregated colleges.
School Racial Composition and College Attendance Revisited
Direct effects of school racial composition on college attendance when introducing curriculum and grades and relocating the test scores.
School Integration and Occupational Achievement of Negroes
Examines long term outcomes of desegregated schooling for African Americans- employment patterns and income