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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 Idoux, and Parag 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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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 Pathak, and Christopher 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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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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Teacher Performance Pay, Coaching, and Long-Run Student Outcomes

Sarah Cohodes, Ozkan Eren, and Orgul Ozturk

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Race to the Tablet? The Impact of a Personalized Tablet Educational Program

Elizabeth Setren

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