Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Abdulkadiroglu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua D.; Hull, Peter D.; Pathak, Parag A.
• 署名单位: Duke University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20150479
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 1878-1920
• 关键词: public-schools evidence; achievement; average; identification; models

摘要

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.