comprehensive high schools into small schools with roughly 100 students per grade. We use assignment lotteries embedded in New York … 150 unselective small high schools created between 2002 and 2008 have enhanced autonomy, but operate within-district with … schools are more engaged and closely monitored, despite fewer course offerings and activities. Teachers report greater …

schools. While 18% of students obtained multiple first round offers, the mechanism's uncoordinated offers led more than a …, there is a 7.2 percentage point increase in matriculation at assigned school and students are assigned to schools that are … on average 0.69 miles further from home. Even though students prefer nearby schools, our estimates suggest substantial …

Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates … needn’t capture treatment effects for students who haven’t applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for … takeovers in New Orleans and Boston. Takeovers are traditional public schools that close and then re-open as charter schools …