@techreport{NBERw8741, title = "New Evidence about Brown v.
Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial
Composition on Achievement", author = "Eric A. Hanushek and John
F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin", institution = "National Bureau of
Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working
Paper Series", number = "8741", year = "2002", month =
"January", doi = {10.3386/w8741}, URL =
"http://www.nber.org/papers/w8741", abstract = {Uncovering the
effects of school racial composition on achievement is
difficult, because racial mixing in the schools is not an
accident but instead represents a complex mixture of government
and family choices. While the goals of the integration of
schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of Education are very
broad, here we focus more narrowly on how school racial
composition effects scholastic achievement. Our evaluation, made
possible by rich panel data on the achievement of Texas
students, disentangles racial composition effects from other
aspects of school q