Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston | Zendy

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu | Zendy; Joshua D. Angrist | Zendy; Peter Hull | Zendy; Parag A. Pathak | Zendy

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Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Author(s) -

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu,

Joshua D. Angrist,

Peter Hull,

Parag A. Pathak

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

american economic review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 16.936

H-Index - 297

eISSN - 1944-7981

pISSN - 0002-8282

DOI - 10.1257/aer.20150479

Subject(s) - charter , attendance , economics , intervention (counseling) , sample (material) , psychological intervention , incentive , demographic economics , political science , law , economic growth , psychology , market economy , chemistry , chromatography , psychiatry

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.Institute of Education Sciences (U.S.) (Award R305A120269)National Science Foundation (U.S.) (award SES-1426541)Laura and John Arnold Foundatio

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