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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20792
来源ID	Working Paper 20792
	Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston
	Atila Abdulkadiroğlu; Joshua D. Angrist; Peter D. Hull; Parag A. Pathak
发表日期	2014-12-29
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn’t capture treatment effects for students who haven’t applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates of the effect of charter school attendance on middle-schoolers in charter takeovers in New Orleans and Boston. Takeovers are traditional public schools that close and then re-open as charter schools. Students enrolled in the schools designated for closure are eligible for “grandfathering” into the new schools; that is, they are guaranteed seats. We use this fact to construct instrumental variables estimates of the effects of passive charter attendance: the grandfathering instrument compares students at schools designated for takeover with students who appear similar at baseline and who were attending similar schools not yet closed, while adjusting for possible violations of the exclusion restriction in such comparisons. Estimates for a large sample of takeover schools in the New Orleans Recovery School District show substantial gains from takeover enrollment. In Boston, where we can compare grandfathering and lottery estimates for a middle school, grandfathered students see achievement gains at least as large as the gains for students assigned seats in lotteries. Larger reading gains for grandfathering compliers are explained by a worse non-charter fallback.
主题	Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20792
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578467
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Atila Abdulkadiroğlu,Joshua D. Angrist,Peter D. Hull,et al. Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston. 2014.