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Putting School Surveys to the Test

Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, Russell Legate-Yang, Parag A. Pathak, and Christopher R. Walters

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Who Benefits from Remote Schooling? Self-Selection and Match Effects

Jesse Bruhn, Christopher Campos, Eric Chyn, and Anh Tran

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The Impact of Increased Exposure of Diversity on Suburban Students’ Outcomes: An Analysis of the METCO Voluntary Desegregation Program

Elizabeth Setren

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When do Informational Interventions Work? Experimental Evidence from New York City High School Choice

Sarah R. Cohodes, Sean P. Corcoran, Jennifer L. Jennings, and Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj

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Different Paths to College Success: The Impact of Massachusetts’ Charter Schools on College Trajectories

Sarah Cohodes and Astrid Pineda

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Dissertation Paths: Advisors and Students in the Economics Research Production Function

Joshua Angrist and Marc Diederichs

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The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 Folk School Reform

Daron Acemoglu, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Matti Sarvimäki

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Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re)assignment: An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools

Julien Combe, Umut Dur, Olivier Tercieux, Camille Terrier, and M. Utku Ünver

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Overcoming Racial Gaps in School Preferences: The Role of Peer Diversity in School Choice

Viola Corradini and Clémence Idoux

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Busing to Opportunity? The Impacts of the METCO Voluntary School Desegregation Program on Urban Students of Color

Elizabeth Setren

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School Effects on College Outcomes in the Absence of Standardized Tests: The Role of Reputation vs. Effectiveness

Román Andrés Zárate, Martín Carbajal, María Pía Basurto, and Manuel Barrón

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Thirty Years of Charter Schools: What Does Lottery-Based Research Tell Us?

Sarah Cohodes and Susha Roy

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Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York

Joshua Angrist, Guthrie Gray-Lobe, Clemence M. Idoux, and Parag A. Pathak

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The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice Program

Christopher Campos and Caitlin Kearns

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Social Interactions, Information, and Preferences for Schools: Experimental Evidence from Los Angeles

Christopher Campos

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Marginal Returns to Public Universities

Jack Mountjoy

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