American Economic Journal:
Economic Policy
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Local Responses to Federal Grants: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(pp. 126–59)
Abstract
We analyze the effects of the introduction of Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, a large federal grants program designed to increase poor students' educational services and achievement. We focus on the South, the poorest region of the country. Title I increased school spending by $0.50 on the dollar in the average southern school district and by more in districts with less ability to offset grants through local tax reductions. Title I-induced increases in school budgets appear to have reduced high school dropout rates of whites, but not blacks.Citation
Cascio, Elizabeth U., Nora Gordon, and Sarah Reber. 2013. "Local Responses to Federal Grants: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 5 (3): 126–59. DOI: 10.1257/pol.5.3.126Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- H52 National Government Expenditures and Education
- H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
- I21 Analysis of Education
- I28 Education: Government Policy
- J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination