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

By Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua D. Angrist, S. Dynarski, Thomas J. Kane, Parag A. Pathak. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston (2021, positive): “This analysis builds on earlier work based on tie-breaking in centralized assignment systems (Abdulkadiro˘glu et al. 2011, 2017) and previous studies looking at short-term impacts of preschool in Boston (Weiland and Yoshikawa 2013; Weiland et al. 2019).”
The Demand for Effective Charter Schools (2018, positive): “While evidence on the effects of nonurban charter schools is mixed,(1) studies based on admission lotteries show that charters in Boston and New York boost academic achievement sharply (Abdulkadiroğlu et al. 2011; Dobbie and Fryer 2011). Hoxby and Rockoff (2004), Hoxby and Murarka (2009), Gleason et”
The effect of school closings on student achievement (2014, neutral): “these policies differ from school closings in that they do not include the mobility of teachers that Prominent examples of the school choice literature include Rouse (1998), Cullen, Jacob, and Levitt (2005), Abdulkadiroğlu et al. (2011) and Deming (2011).”
Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City (2013, neutral): “2σ higher per year in reading (Abdulkadiro ̆ glu et al. 2011), with similar gains reported for students attending the Promise Academy charter school in the Harlem Children’s Zone (Dobbie and Fryer 2011), the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) schools (Angrist et al. 2010, Tuttle et al. 2010), and the”
Teacher quality policy when supply matters (2012, background): “And “no excuses” charter schools (Abdulkadiroğlu et al., 2011) that hire from similar pools serve only a few percent of urban students but are already importantly constrained by labor supply shortages (Wilson, 2009).”
Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination. NBER Working Paper No. 16256. (2010, positive): “Similar to the results of KIPP, Abdulkadiroglu et al. (2009) find that students enrolled in oversubscribed Boston charter schools with organized lottery files gain about 0.17 standard deviations per year in ELA and 0.53 standard deviations per year in math.53”
Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information (2010, result): “These are comparable to the annual test score gains found in recent experimental evaluations of charter schools (Hoxby and Murarka (2009), Abdulkadiroglu et al. (2009)) and comparable to the estimated annual impact of reducing class size in early elementary grades found in Project STAR (Krueger (199”
The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey (2014, positive): “…s denotes a course*gender*age group lottery, and is a dummy variable indicating whether individual i applied for lottery s. 12 This controls for randomization strata (Bruhn and McKenzie, 2009) as well as controlling for individuals who applied for more than one course (Abdulkadiroglu et al, 2011).”
The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools (2015, positive): “There is a growing consensus that the first assumption holds ðNeal 1997; Grogger and Neal 2000; Angrist et al. 2010; Abdulkadiroglu et al. 2011, 2014; Dobbie and Fryer 2011Þ.”
The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices (2014, positive): “(2010) and Abdulkadiroğlu et al. (2011) conduct lottery-based evaluations of the effects of attending high-performing charter schools and find much larger impacts on math than on reading scores. Dobbie and Fryer (2011) find that children attending a Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) school also realize l”