Replication data for: Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Atila Abdulkadiroğlu; Joshua D. Angrist; Peter D. Hull; Parag A. Pathak

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Project Citation:

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Angrist, Joshua D., Hull, Peter D., and Pathak, Parag A. Replication data for: Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113052V1

Project Description

Summary: 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.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D44 Auctions
      H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
      I21 Analysis of Education
      I28 Education: Government Policy

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