Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation
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In: US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP- 09-19
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 8985
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 12205
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In: American economic review, Band 106, Heft 7, S. 1878-1920
ISSN: 1944-7981
Charter takeovers are traditional public schools restarted as charter schools. We develop a grandfathering instrument for takeover attendance that compares students at schools designated for takeover with a matched sample of students attending similar schools not yet taken over. Grandfathering estimates from New Orleans show substantial gains from takeover enrollment. In Boston, grandfathered students see achievement gains at least as large as the gains for students assigned charter seats in lotteries. A non-charter Boston turnaround intervention that had much in common with the takeover strategy generated gains as large as those seen for takeovers, while other more modest turnaround interventions yielded smaller effects. (JEL D44, H75, I21, I28)
In: NBER Working Paper No. w23015
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w20800
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In: American economic review, Band 107, Heft 5, S. 240-245
ISSN: 1944-7981
Many school and college admission systems use centralized mechanisms to allocate seats based on applicant preferences and school priorities. When tie-breaking uses non-randomly assigned criteria like distance or a test score, applicants with the same preferences and priorities are not directly comparable. The non-lottery setting does generate a kind of local random assignment that opens the door to regression discontinuity designs. This paper introduces a hybrid RD/propensity score empirical strategy that exploits quasi-experiments embedded in serial dictatorship, a mechanism widely used for college and selective K-12 school admissions. We use our approach to estimate achievement effects of Chicago's exam schools.
In: NBER Working Paper No. w20792
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In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4396
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w19275
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