Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South
研究利用20世纪30年代末NAACP推动的教师薪资平等运动，分析黑人教师薪资增长对南部各县种族教育差距缩小的影响，发现薪资提升显著降低了入学率和年级晋升的种族不平等。
In the late 1930s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) launched a campaign to equalize Black and white teacher salaries in the de jure segregated schools of the American South. We estimate the effect of teacher pay on educational attainment exploiting variation in Black salary gains over time across Southern counties with different Black enrollment shares and across states by whether subsequent policy reinforced or resisted court rulings favorable to the NAACP. Using newly collected county panel data, we find that Black teacher salary gains contributed to the large reductions in racial inequality in school enrollment and grade progression in the South at midcentury.