Episode 52: Katherine Eriksson on Rosenwald schools

Katherine Eriksson talks about how access to education affected incarceration in the early 20th century.

"Education and Incarceration in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools" by Katherine Eriksson.

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OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

• “The Impact of Rosenwald Schools on Black Achievement” by Daniel Aaronson and Bhashkar Mazumder.

• Probable Causation Episode 36: Ellora Derenoncourt.

• “Closing the Gap? The Effect of Private Philanthropy on the Provision of African-American Schooling in the U.S. South” by Celeste Carruthers and Marianne Wanamaker.

• "Moving North and into jail? The great migration and black incarceration" by Katherine Eriksson.

• "Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System" by Michael Poyker.

• "Prisons and Profits: Understanding The Political Economy of Incarceration in the Postbellum American South" by Susanne Schwarz.

• "The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio" by Samuel Norris, Matthew Pecenco, and Jeffrey Weaver.

• Probable Causation Episode 7: Jeff Weaver.

• Probable Causation Episode 9: Michael Mueller-Smith.