Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots

We use student assignment lotteries to estimate the effect of charter school attendance on student achievement in Boston. We also evaluate a related alternative, Boston's pilot schools. Pilot schools have some of the independence of charter schools, but operate within the Boston Public School...

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Main Authors: Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Angrist, Joshua, Dynarski, Susan M., Kane, Thomas J., Pathak, Parag
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: President and Fellows of Harvard College 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61945
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6992-8956
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-3864