title: The effect of school quality on black-white health differences: evidence from segregated southern schools.
abstract: This study assesses the effect of black-white differences in school quality on black-white differences in health in later life resulting from the racial convergence in school quality for cohorts born between 1910 and 1950 in southern states with segregated schools. Using data from the 1984-2007 National Health Interview Surveys linked to race-specific data on school quality, we find that reductions in the black-white gap in school quality led to modest reductions in the black-white gap in disability.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Emory University, 1602 Fishburne Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30322-2240, USA, david.frisvold@emory.edu.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Frisvold
authors.forename: Ezra
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Golberstein
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D054525:Minority Health / Q000639:trends*; D063505:Racism / Q000639:trends*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012574:Schools / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D015144:Southeastern United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*