Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2013
Publication Title
American Economic Review
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.
DOI
10.1257/aer.103.3.423
Recommended Citation
Cascio, Elizabeth U. and Reber, Sarah, "The Poverty Gap in School Spending Following the Introduction of Title I" (2013). Open Dartmouth: Faculty Open Access Articles. 2388.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2388