Organizers:

Susan Williams McElroy, University of Texas - Dallas

Session Chairs:

Samuel Myers, Jr., University of Minnesota

Papers:

"Disparities Between Census and Survey Data and School System Data on Black High School Drop-Out Rates: What Makes Sense?"
William E. Spriggs, Economic Policy Institute
Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute
Joydeep Roy, Economic Policy Institute

"Non-Random Sorting Around Breaks in the Regression-Discontinuity Design: Evidence From Class Size Reduction"
Patrick McEwan, Wellesley College
Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University

"Separate and Unequal: Georgia School Finance in 1910"
Susan Williams McElroy, University of Texas - Dallas
Kruti Dholakia, University of Texas - Dallas

Discussants:

Daniel M. O'Brien, University of Texas - Dallas
Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Duke University