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dc.creatorWhite, Kana Krista
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-22T14:08:04Z
dc.date.available2020-05-22T14:08:04Z
dc.date.created2020
dc.identifierWLURG38_White_ECON_2020
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11021/34754
dc.descriptionThesis; [FULL-TEXT RESTRICTED TO WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY LOGIN]en_US
dc.descriptionKana Krista White is a member of the Class of 2020 of Washington and Lee University.en_US
dc.description.abstractEthnic fragmentation influences local preferences and the provision of public goods, such as education. I examine the effect of changes in racial composition for Northern and Western cities between 1940 and 1970 on city education expenditure. I estimate the effect of black in-migration using a shift-share instrument, which interacts predicted black Southern migration flows with pre-1940 black migrant settlement patterns. I find that a 10,000-person increase in black population reduces education expenditure per capita by 2.4% and reduces the percent of general expenditure allocated to education by almost 0.2 percentage points. These results support the public goods and ethnic divisions theory and may help explain reduced upward mobility for African Americans in Great Migration destination cities.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityKana K. White
dc.format.extent29 pagesen_US
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dc.subject.otherWashington and Lee University -- Honors in Economicsen_US
dc.titleThe Great Migration and Education: How African American Migrant Flows Impacted Northern Cities' Finance Decisions (thesis)en_US
dc.typeTexten_US
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dc.rights.holderWhite, Kana Krista
dc.subject.fastDiscrimination in educationen_US
dc.subject.fastRace discriminationen_US
dc.subject.fastEducation -- Economic aspectsen_US
dc.subject.fastRural-urban migrationen_US
local.departmentEconomicsen_US
local.scholarshiptypeHonors Thesisen_US


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