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The Elite Illusion : Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2011

Talented students compete fiercely for seats at Boston and New York exam schools. These schools are characterized by high levels of peer achievement and a demanding curriculum tailored to each district's highest achievers. While exam school students do very well in school, the question of...

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Matching with Couples : Stability and Incentives in Large Markets

Kojima, Fuhito - 2010

doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are … present. We find conditions under which a stable matching exists with high probability in large markets. We present a … mechanism that finds a stable matching with high probability, and which makes truth-telling by all participants an approximate …

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Lotteries in Student Assignment : An Equivalence Result

Pathak, Parag A. - 2010

This paper formally examines two competing methods of conducting a lottery in assigning students to schools, motivated by the design of the centralized high school student assignment system in New York City. The main result of the paper is that a single and multiple lottery mechanism are...

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Choice and Consequence : Assessing Mismatch at Chicago Exam Schools

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2019

mediate student-school matching play no role in this story.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and …

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Strategy-Proofness Versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences : Redesigning the New York City High School Match

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2010

The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences--ties--in school preferences. Simulations with field data and the theory favor breaking...

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Explaining Charter School Effectiveness

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2011

Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter schools in other settings do not. We explore student-level and school-level explanations for these differences using a large sample of Massachusetts charter schools. Our results show...

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Who Benefits from Kipp?

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2010

Charter schools affiliated with the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) are emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education. These schools feature a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms and a focus on traditional reading and math...

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Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools : Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2010

Charter schools are publicly funded but operate outside the regulatory framework and collective bargaining agreements characteristic of traditional public schools. In return for this freedom, charter schools are subject to heightened accountability. This paper estimates the impact of charter...

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Free to Choose : Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement?

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2016

A central argument for school choice is that families value the freedom to exercise choice and can make wise decisions. This principle may underlie why lottery-based school evaluations, which exploit over-subscription due to excess demand, have almost always reported positive or zero achievement...

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Charters Without Lotteries : Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2014

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 which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates...

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