The association between the end of court-ordered school desegregation and preterm births among Black women.

ABSTRACT: Racial segregation, and in particular school segregation, likely plays an important role in affecting health outcomes. To examine this connection, this paper explores the relationship between the end of court-ordered school desegregation and preterm births among Blacks using birth certificate information between 1992 and 2002 (n = 183,178). The end of court-ordered oversight has important implications for the level of racial segregation in schools: If residential segregation remains high, neighborhood-based student assignment plans would naturally increase school segregation. A rise in school segregation may lead to worse educational, labor, and health outcomes among Blacks. Using multiple difference-in-differences framework that exploits variation in exposure to schools that declared unit

SUBMITTER: Shen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6104921 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature