Explaining Charter School Effectiveness

Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter schools in other settings do not. Using the largest available sample of lotteried applicants to charter schools, we explore student-level and school-level explanations for this difference...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Angrist, Joshua, Pathak, Parag, Walters, Christopher
Format: Working Paper
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71138