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Title: The Poverty Gap in School Spending Following the Introduction of Title I

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act explicitly directed more federal aid for K-12 education to poorer areas for the first time in US history, with a goal of promoting regional convergence in school spending. Using newly collected data, we find some evidence that Title I narrowed the gap in per-pupil school spending between richer and poorer states in the short- to medium-run. However, the program was small relative to then-existing poverty gaps in school spending; even in the absence of crowd-out by local or state governments, the program could have reduced the gap by only 15 percent.

Url: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.103.3.423

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Authors: Cascio, Elizabeth, U

Periodical (Full): AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW

Issue: 3

Volume: 103

Pages: 423-27

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Education, Poverty and Welfare

Countries: United States