Volume 11, Number 3 (Summer) 1976
Summers, Anita A., and Barbara L. Wolfe. 1976. "Intradistrict Distribution of School Inputs to the Disadvantaged: Evidence for the Courts." Journal of Human Resources 11(3):328-342.
This paper details a method for those interested in investigating the equity aspects of intradistrict distributions of educational inputs. It should be viewed as a procedure for post-Hobson v. Hansen lawyers and for other constituents that steps away from some of the speculative quality of the evidence that has been, and still is, being used. Using detailed individual school data in a systematic way allows the investigator to delineate which unequally distributed inputs positively contribute to stated equity objectives, which inputs are outside the school administration's control, and what the overall equity picture is, starting from the components. The method is applied to data for the Philadelphia school district.
The authors are, respectively, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; and Consulting Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and Assistant Professor of Economics, Bryn Mawr College. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
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