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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Main Authors: Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila (Author), Angrist, Joshua (Contributor), Hull, Peter Davenport (Contributor), Pathak, Parag (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association, 2017-06-23T20:48:17Z.
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