ArticlePloS one2018
The association between the end of court-ordered school desegregation and preterm births among Black women.
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- The Association of School Racial Segregation with Health Among U.S. Youths: A Nationwide Longitudinal Study.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Association Between Changes in Racial Residential and School Segregation and Trends in Racial Health Disparities, 2000-2020: A Life Course Perspective.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- The end of court-ordered desegregation and US children's health: quasi-experimental evidence.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- School Segregation and Health Across Racial Groups: A Life Course Study.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
- Individual and regional differences in the effects of school racial segregation on Black students' health.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Testing mediating pathways between school segregation and health: Evidence on peer prejudice and health behaviors.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- School racial segregation and long-term cardiovascular health among Black adults in the US: A quasi-experimental study.PLoS medicine · 2022Article
- School Racial Segregation and the Health of Black Children.Pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Racial segregation, and in particular school segregation, likely plays an important role in affecting health outcomes. To examine this connection, this paper explores the relationship between the end of court-ordered school desegregation and preterm births among Blacks using birth certificate information between 1992 and 2002 (n = 183,178). The end of court-ordered oversight has important implications for the level of racial segregation in schools: If residential segregation remains high, neighborhood-based student assignment plans would naturally increase school segregation. A rise in school segregation may lead to worse educational, labor, and health outcomes among Blacks. Using multiple difference-in-differences framework that exploits variation in exposure to schools that declared unitary status, it finds that school districts' release from court oversight is associated with a 0.8 percentage point increase in preterm births among Black mothers. This paper contributes to literature that finds that the end of court-ordered school desegregation in the 1990s have negative implications for Blacks. More research should be conducted to understand the causal relationship between school segregation and infant health.
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