A Different World: Enduring Effects of School Desegregation on Ideology and Attitudes

We have benefited from helpful conversations with Stephen Billings, John Bullock, Eric Chyn, Allan Drazen, Arindrajit Dube, Kareem Haggag, Tom Hubbard, Ilyana Kuziemko, Matt Lowe, Suresh Naidu, Jesse Shapiro, as well as seminar participants at Harvard University, Princeton University, University of British Columbia, University of Houston, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, the 7th Columbia University Conference in Political Economy, the 2023 Meeting of the European Economic Association, and the 2025 Meeting of the American Economic Association. Jimmy Grant, Alessio Ruvinov, Drew White, Ryan Willoughby, and especially Daniel Kolliner and John Iselin provided excellent research assistance. Additionally, we are grateful to James Cundy and the staff at the JCPS Archives and Records Center for their support in locating and understanding archival yearbook and commencement records. Funding was generously provided by the National Science Foundation (Awards 2018614 and 2018869), the Russell Sage Foundation (Grant 2008-27278), and the Ford Center for Global Citizenship at Northwestern University. The research in this paper has been reviewed by the Institutional Review Boards at Northwestern University, University of Texas, and NORC at the University of Chicago. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.