Bifulco and Lopoo article on school desegregation and teenage fertility published in EEPA
Nov 30, 2015
School Desegregation and Teenage Fertility
Robert Bifulco, Leonard M. Lopoo & Sun Jung Oh
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, November 2015
The school desegregation efforts following the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision represent one of the most important social policy initiatives of the 20th century. Despite a large research literature that shows many positive effects of desegregation on educational outcomes, its effect on the lives of individuals outside of the educational domain are still not fully understood. In this article, the authors examine the effects of desegregation on the fertility of teenagers. In contrast to previous findings, their analysis suggests that desegregation did not reduce the fertility of non-White teens, and, if it had any effect at all, it likely increased birthrates among non-White teens in counties with small to average-sized non-White populations.
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