Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools
研究1966年美国一项有条件联邦拨款计划如何影响南方学校废除种族隔离，发现面临更大拨款风险的学区更可能采取最低限度合规，但减少了法院介入负担。
This paper examines how a large conditional grants program influenced school desegregation in the American South. Exploiting newly collected archival data and quasi-experimental variation in potential per-pupil federal grants, we show that school districts with more at risk in 1966 were more likely to desegregate just enough to receive their funds. Although the program did not raise the exposure of blacks to whites like later court orders, districts with larger grants at risk in 1966 were less likely to be under court order through 1970, suggesting that tying federal funds to nondiscrimination reduced the burden of desegregation on federal courts. (c) 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..