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

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July 2024

Diverse Paths to College Success: The Impact of Massachusetts’ Urban and Nonurban Charter Schools on College Trajectories

Sarah Cohodes and Astrid Pineda

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

Viola Corradini and Clémence Idoux

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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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Race and the Mismeasure of School Quality

Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag Pathak, and Christopher Walters

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Credible School Value-Added with Undersubscribed School Lotteries

Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag A. Pathak, and Christopher R. Walters

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Lottery Evidence on the Impact of Preschool in the United States: A Review and Meta-Analysis

Jesse Bruhn and Emily Emick

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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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Confidence and College Applications: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention

Camille Terrier, Renke Schmacker, and Rustamdjan Hakimov

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Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap

David Autor, David Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Jeffrey Roth, and Melanie Wasserman

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Choice and Consequence: Assessing Mismatch at Chicago Exam Schools

Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak and Román Andrés Zárate

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Post COVID-19 Test Score Recovery: Initial Evidence from State Testing Data

Clare Halloran, Claire E. Hug, Rebecca Jack, and Emily Oster

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