Participation and Department of Justice School Desegregation Consent Decrees

Diversity and Discontent: The Relationship Between School Desegregation and Perceptions of Racial Justice

Termination of Desegregation Decrees and the Elusive Meaning of Unitary Status

School Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries.

I examine changes in the city-suburban housing price gap in metropolitan areas with and without court-ordered desegregation plans over the 1970s, narrowing my comparison to housing units on opposite sides of district boundaries. Desegregation of public schools in central cities reduced the demand for urban residence, leading urban housing prices and rents to decline by 6 percent relative to nei...

School Choice with Consent

An increasingly popular practice for student assignment to public schools in the U.S. is the use of school choice systems. The celebrated Gale-Shapley student-optimal stable mechanism (SOSM) has recently replaced two de…cient student assignment mechanisms that were in use in New York City and Boston. We provide theoretical evidence that the SOSM outcome may produce large welfare losses. Then we...

U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

This Bulletin features evaluations of programs that have implemented the MST approach. Of particular interest is the Simpsonville, South Carolina, program, which services serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders at imminent risk of out-of-home placement. The Simpsonville program has significantly reduced recidivism rates at substantial savings in terms of both human and financial consid...