Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston
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 estim...
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| author | Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila Angrist, Joshua Hull, Peter Davenport Pathak, Parag |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1102402022-09-29T14:34:16Z Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila Angrist, Joshua Hull, Peter Davenport Pathak, Parag Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Angrist, Joshua Hull, Peter Davenport Pathak, Parag 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. Institute of Education Sciences (U.S.) (Award R305A120269) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (award SES-1426541) Laura and John Arnold Foundation 2017-06-23T20:48:17Z 2017-06-23T20:48:17Z 2016-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0002-8282 1944-7981 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110240 Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila, Joshua D. Angrist, Peter D. Hull, and Parag A. Pathak. “Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston†.” American Economic Review 106, no. 7 (July 2016): 1878–1920. © 2016 American Economic Association https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6992-8956 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3910-1573 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-3864 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20150479 American Economic Review Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Economic Association American Economic Association |
| spellingShingle | Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila Angrist, Joshua Hull, Peter Davenport Pathak, Parag Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston |
| title | Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston |
| title_full | Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston |
| title_fullStr | Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston |
| title_full_unstemmed | Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston |
| title_short | Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston |
| title_sort | charters without lotteries testing takeovers in new orleans and boston |
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