Angrist, Joshua; Pathak, Parag A.; Walters, Christopher R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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 … sources of charter effect heterogeneity, we show that urban charter schools boost achievement well beyond that of urban public …